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John Wyndham Quotes

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success Picture Quote #1

Knowing makes all the difference... It’s the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for Picture Quote #1

Why should I? I’ve done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten Picture Quote #1

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it Picture Quote #1

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence Picture Quote #1

The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital Picture Quote #1

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If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does Picture Quote #1

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool’s vote is equal to a sensible man’s? Picture Quote #1

No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it’s not a thing, it’s a quality, and minds aren’t all the same value; they’re better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse Picture Quote #1

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at Picture Quote #1

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Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power Picture Quote #1

If you run away from a thing just because you don’t like it, you don’t like what you find either Picture Quote #1

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past Picture Quote #1

It’s humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it’s still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

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We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success. (John Wyndham Quotes) Knowing makes all the difference... It’s the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for (John Wyndham Quotes) Why should I? I’ve done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten (John Wyndham Quotes) Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it (John Wyndham Quotes) Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence (John Wyndham Quotes) The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital (John Wyndham Quotes) If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does (John Wyndham Quotes) Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool’s vote is equal to a sensible man’s? (John Wyndham Quotes) No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it’s not a thing, it’s a quality, and minds aren’t all the same value; they’re better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean (John Wyndham Quotes) 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 (John Wyndham Quotes) To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse (John Wyndham Quotes) Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at (John Wyndham Quotes) Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power (John Wyndham Quotes) If you run away from a thing just because you don’t like it, you don’t like what you find either (John Wyndham Quotes) And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past (John Wyndham Quotes) It’s humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it’s still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on (John Wyndham Quotes) 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 (John Wyndham Quotes)