John Wyndham quotes

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. (John Wyndham)
When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. View quote
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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. View quote
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And, after all, what is a planet but an island in space? View quote
John Wyndham
If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either. View quote
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If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does. View quote
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Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context. View quote
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Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten. View quote
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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. View quote
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There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes. View quote
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There's a whole lot of people don't seem to understand that you have to talk to a man in his own language before he'll take you seriously. (John Wyndham)
Bored! My God, to think that I could ever have been bored up there. View quote
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The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise. View quote
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Nobody, nobody but a child, or a child-minded person, expects life to be fair. View quote
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The wise lamb does not enrage the lion, it placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best. View quote
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Cruelty is as old as life itself. View quote
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The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us. View quote
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We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it. View quote
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You can't drive a flock of sheep to market in a dead straight line, but there are ways of getting 'em there. View quote
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You know perfectly well that women can and do - or rather did - handle the most complicated and delicate machines when they took the trouble to understand them. What generally happens is that they're too lazy to take the trouble unless they have to. View quote
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She rummaged in a battered bag beside her, brought out a dirty spoon, and began to taste the beans as if they were one of the jams of paradise. (John Wyndham)