John Wyndham - The Midwich Cuckoos (1957)

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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.

John Wyndham

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

John Wyndham

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

John Wyndham

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

John Wyndham

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?

John Wyndham

I do refuse to accept a bad theory simply on the grounds that there is not a better [one].

John Wyndham