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Don't you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason?

Darling, whose book is this to be?"
"Ostensibly yours, my sweet"
"I see
rather like my life since I met you?"
"Yes darling

Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.

My protective coloration isn't intended to deceive you, my sweet. It is intended to deceive me.

When almost half a lifetime has been spent in one conception of order, reorientation is no five-minute business.

Babies, in a world that already has far too many, remain desirable.

All the old problems, the stale ones, both personal and general, had been solved by one mighty slash.

Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough.

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

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

We are not shut away into individual cages from which we can reach out only with inadequate words.

If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.

When I was quite small I would sometimes dream of a city - which was strange, because it began before I even knew what a city was.

The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.

The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital

every day it was tomorrow that I'd be able to do it, and each day it became more difficult.

Personal honesty takes time to assert itself - if it is ever allowed to.

You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise.

A sort of botanical glory-hole

When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.

It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.

There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.

Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.

The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.

Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten

But it is an inescapable conclusion that life has to be dynamic and not static. Change is bound to come one way or another.

It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.

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

Appreciating a private room. In a public ward the messy proceeding would have taken place a whole unnecessary hour

... after all, what is a planet but an island in space?

In Oppley they're smart, and in Stouch they're smarmy, but Midwich folk are just plain barmy

We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.

Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.

I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.

And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.

There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled ...

I was hiding from them even while I moved among them.

It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness ...

Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?

Knowing makes all the difference ... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for

"Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that."
"Exactly," she agreed.