John Wyndham Quotes

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• We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has…
• Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for
• Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
• Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
• If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.
• The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital
• To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd…
• The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all…
• No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a…
• I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes it funny how such different…
• But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets. Surely, then, He must have…
• Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
• It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own…
• I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would…
• There is an inability to sustain the tragic mood, a phoenix quality of the mind. It may be helpful or harmful, it is just a…
• I shall pray to God to send charity to this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I…
• Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten
• There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.
• So you're in love with her?' she went on. A word again ... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly…
• And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that…

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