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There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.
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I do refuse to accept a bad theory simply on the grounds that there is not a better [one].
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Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
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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 have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.
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Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed — I am only beaten.
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It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.
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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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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 universal form? Would it not be a staggering vanity to imagine that He can manifest Himself only in the form that is appropriate to this particular, not very important planet?
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If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.
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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 shall ask Him if is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish on the body.... And I shall pray Him, too, that the hearts of the self-righteous may be broken.
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The essential quality of life is living, the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.
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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 it funny how such different ideas of the same affair get about.
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If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.
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When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
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Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
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Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
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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 here" — that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.
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And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.
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Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
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The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.
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I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it.
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There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled.
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But not she. Her eternity is an article of her faith. Great wars and disasters can ebb and flow, races rise and fall, empires wither with suffering and death, but these are superficialities: she, woman, is perpetual, essential; she will go on for ever.
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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 part of the will to survive—yet, also, it has made it possible for us to engage in one weakening war after another. But it is a necessary part of our mechanism that we should be able to cry only for a time over even an ocean of spilt milk—the spectacular must soon become the commonplace if life is to be supportable.
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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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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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John Wyndham
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Born:
July 10, 1903
Died:
March 11, 1969
(aged 65)
Bio:
John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer who usually used the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes.
Known for:
The Day of the Triffids (1951)
The Chrysalids (1955)
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)
The Kraken Wakes (1953)
Chocky (1968)
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