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John Wyndham quotes: Don't you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason? Don't you sometimes wish that you had been born into the Age of Reason, instead of into the Age of the Ostensible Reason?
John Wyndham quotes: Darling, whose book is this to be?""Ostensibly yours, my sweet""I see rather like my life since I met you?""Yes darling Darling, whose book is this to be?"
"Ostensibly yours, my sweet"
"I see
rather like my life since I met you?"
"Yes darling
John Wyndham quotes: Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at. Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
John Wyndham quotes: My protective coloration isn't intended to deceive you, my sweet. It is intended to deceive me. My protective coloration isn't intended to deceive you, my sweet. It is intended to deceive me.
John Wyndham quotes: When almost half a lifetime has been spent in one conception of order, reorientation is no five-minute business. When almost half a lifetime has been spent in one conception of order, reorientation is no five-minute business.
John Wyndham quotes: Babies, in a world that already has far too many, remain desirable. Babies, in a world that already has far too many, remain desirable.
John Wyndham quotes: All the old problems, the stale ones, both personal and general, had been solved by one mighty slash. All the old problems, the stale ones, both personal and general, had been solved by one mighty slash.
John Wyndham quotes: Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough. Pretty nearly any stroke of fate can be made to look like a funny coincidence if you try hard enough and wait long enough.
John Wyndham quotes: If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does. If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.
John Wyndham quotes: Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context. Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.
John Wyndham quotes: We are not shut away into individual cages from which we can reach out only with inadequate words. We are not shut away into individual cages from which we can reach out only with inadequate words.
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. 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: 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. 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.
John Wyndham quotes: The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise. The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.
John Wyndham quotes: The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital The clock is the most scared thing in a hospital
John Wyndham quotes: every day it was tomorrow that I'd be able to do it, and each day it became more difficult. every day it was tomorrow that I'd be able to do it, and each day it became more difficult.
John Wyndham quotes: Personal honesty takes time to assert itself - if it is ever allowed to. Personal honesty takes time to assert itself - if it is ever allowed to.
John Wyndham quotes: You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise. You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise.
John Wyndham quotes: A sort of botanical glory-hole A sort of botanical glory-hole
John Wyndham quotes: When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere. When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.
John Wyndham quotes: It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on. It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.
John Wyndham quotes: There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes. There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.
John Wyndham quotes: Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
John Wyndham quotes: The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it. 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 quotes: Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten
John Wyndham quotes: But it is an inescapable conclusion that life has to be dynamic and not static. Change is bound to come one way or another. But it is an inescapable conclusion that life has to be dynamic and not static. Change is bound to come one way or another.
John Wyndham quotes: It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation. It is because nature is ruthless, hideous, and cruel beyond belief that it was necessary to invent civilisation.
John Wyndham quotes: Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power. Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
John Wyndham quotes: Appreciating a private room. In a public ward the messy proceeding would have taken place a whole unnecessary hour Appreciating a private room. In a public ward the messy proceeding would have taken place a whole unnecessary hour
John Wyndham quotes: ... after all, what is a planet but an island in space? ... after all, what is a planet but an island in space?
John Wyndham quotes: In Oppley they're smart, and in Stouch they're smarmy, but Midwich folk are just plain barmy In Oppley they're smart, and in Stouch they're smarmy, but Midwich folk are just plain barmy
John Wyndham quotes: We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that. We've got to believe that God is sane, Davie boy. We'd be lost indeed if we didn't do that.
John Wyndham quotes: Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it. Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
John Wyndham quotes: I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said. I suppose a book is still a book, even if no one but the author and his wife reads it," she said.
John Wyndham quotes: And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past. And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.
John Wyndham quotes: There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled ... There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled ...
John Wyndham quotes: I was hiding from them even while I moved among them. I was hiding from them even while I moved among them.
John Wyndham quotes: It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness ... It was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness ...
John Wyndham quotes: Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's? Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
John Wyndham quotes: Knowing makes all the difference ... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for Knowing makes all the difference ... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for
John Wyndham quotes: "Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that.""Exactly," she agreed. "Your Tim is so unmistakably a healthy extravert type. Mens stulta in corpore sano, and all that."
"Exactly," she agreed.

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