Nevil Shute Quotes

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• To put your life in danger from time to time... breeds a saneness in dealing with day-to-day trivialities.
• The happily married man with a large family is the test pilot for me.
• I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.
• There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.
• If what they say is right we're none of us going to have time to do all that we planned to do. But we can…
• The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money…
• You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.
• I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long,…
• Some games are fun even when you lose. Even when you know you're going to lose before you start. It's fun just playing them.
• Like some infernal monster, still venomous in death, a war can go on killing people for a long time after it’s all over.
• It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.
• It has been said that an engineer is a man who can do for ten shillings what any fool can do for a pound; if…
• Maybe we've been too silly to deserve a world like this.
• If I have learned one thing in my 54 years, it is that it is very good for the character to engage in sports which…
• Without work men are utterly undone
• You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
• She looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done." "That's as it may…
• It's not the end of the world at all," he said. "It's only the end for us. The world will go on just the same,…
• After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that…
• Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in…

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