# Quote — Jack L. Chalker, Midnight at the Well of Souls

> To tell the truth, the only thing more exhausting than doing something is doing nothing at all.

- Author: [Jack L. Chalker](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-l-chalker.md)
- Book: [Midnight at the Well of Souls](https://www.leafyquotes.com/jack-l-chalker/midnight-at-the-well-of-souls.md)
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> “I don’t think you’re God, Nate,” Ortega replied evenly. “I think you’re crazy.”

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> “It reduces all the revolutions, the struggles, the pain, the great dreams—everything—to nonsense! It means that life is pointless!”
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> “Not pointless,” Brazil put in suddenly. “It just means that the grand schemes are pointless. It means that you don’t make your own life pointless or useless—most people do, you know. It wouldn’t make any difference if ninety-nine percent of the people of the human race—or any other—lived or not. Except in sheer numbers their lives are dull, vegetative, and non-productive.”

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> He was firmly convinced of his uniqueness in the universe and his general superiority to it, although he was occasionally bothered by the universe’s lack of appreciation.

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