"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference……" — John Wyndham
"Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for"
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28 Quotes by John Wyndham
John Wyndham has 28 quotes on this site.
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We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a…
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Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
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Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
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If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.
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The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital
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To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite…
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The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy…
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No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man…
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I'm a reliable witness, you're a reliable witness, practically all God's children are reliable witnesses in their own estimation--which makes…
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But, as I understand it, your God is a universal God; He is God on all suns and all planets.…
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Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
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It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen…
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I think if we didn't contradict ourselves, it would be awfully boring. It would be tedious to be alive.
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Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't.
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The Holy Spirit is our comforter, our teacher. That's why, in prayer, we can ask the Lord to open up…
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A man without ambition is dead. A man with ambition but no love is dead. A man with ambition and…
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It was books that taught me that the things that tormented me most were the very things that connected me…
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I tried to keep both arts alive, but the camera won. I found that while the camera does not express…
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As a housewife, I feel that if the kids are still alive when my husband gets home from work, then…
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