Quotes by John Wyndham - Page 1

The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.
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Clock
Sacred Things
Scared
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Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
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Nice
Self
Self Sufficient
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...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?
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Space
Islands
Planets
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Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
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Of Context
Quotations
Said
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If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.
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Alive
Doe
Want
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Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
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Existence
Precarious
Treasure
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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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Echoes
Past
Unknown Future
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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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Ashamed
Done
Should
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There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.
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Causes
Deals
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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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Men
Democracy
Fool
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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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Fuel
Needs
Understanding
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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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Running
Ifs
Running Away
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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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Dependent
Humiliating
Stills
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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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Children
Different
Taught
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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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Differences
Knowing
Trying
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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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Quality
Essentials
Evolution
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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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Happens
Sunday
Wednesday
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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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Imagine
Lazy
Simple
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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.
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Financial
Folly
People
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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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Optimistic
Comforting
Hallucinations
Race
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The humans have a curious force they call ambition. It drives them, and, through them, it drives us. This force which keeps them active, we lack. Perhaps, in time, we machines will acquire it.
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Hope
Ambition
Machines
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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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Children
Different
Ideas
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I shall pray God to send charity into this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if it is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish of the body.
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Children
Heart
Self
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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.
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Men
Mean
Soul
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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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Important
Sun
Vanity
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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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Men
Book
Thinking
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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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Ocean
War
Will To Survive
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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.
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Companionship
Freak
Reason
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And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body's love, but beyond that they fail clumsily. My love flowed out to her, hers back to me. Mine stroked and soothed. Hers caressed. The distance - and the difference - between us dwindled and vanished. We could meet, mingle, and blend. Neither one of us existed any more; for a time there was a single being that was both. There was escape from the solitary cell; a brief symbiosis, sharing all the word.
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Cells
Differences
Distance
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So you're in love with her?' she went on. A word again ... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and each has taken too much of the other ever to be entirely himself alone; when one has reached the beginning of seeing with a single eye, loving with a single heart, enjoying with a single joy; when there can be moments of identity and nothing is separate save bodies that long for one another ... When there is that, where is the word? There is only the inadequacy of the word that exists. 'We love one another,' I said.
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Eye
Heart
Taken
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