John Wyndham Short Quotes

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Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.

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If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.

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Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

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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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There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled.

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There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

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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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Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed — I am only beaten.

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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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Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.

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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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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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Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

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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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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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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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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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We all have our youthful follies, embarrassing to recall — but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

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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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