John Wyndham Professions : Writer Born : July 10, 1903 Died : March 11, 1969 Browse All Authors Top 31 quotes by John Wyndham And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. John Wyndham unknown-future echoes past Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power. John Wyndham fuel understanding needs It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on. John Wyndham humiliating dependent stills 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 soul men mean Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. John Wyndham precarious existence treasure When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. John Wyndham wednesday sunday happens The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it. John Wyndham quality essentials evolution Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's? John Wyndham fool democracy men ...after all, what is a planet but an island in space? John Wyndham planets space islands 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. John Wyndham eye taken heart 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 lazy imagine simple 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. John Wyndham optimistic race comforting Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it. John Wyndham self-sufficient nice self If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does. John Wyndham alive doe want If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either. John Wyndham running-away ifs running Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context. John Wyndham of-context quotations said 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. John Wyndham distance differences cells 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 vanity important sun Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten John Wyndham ashamed done should 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 folly financial people Similar Authors Ihab Hassan writer Ingmar Bergman writer Isabella Bird writer Ivan E. Coyote writer Al Feldstein writer Bert Sugar writer All Authors
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