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.
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence. - John Wyndham
Anybody who has had a great treasure has always led a precarious existence.
- John Wyndham
Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it. - John Wyndham
Find a nice, self sufficient hilltop, and fortify it.
It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on. - John Wyndham
It's humiliating to be dependent, anyway, but it's still a poorer pass to have no one to depend on.
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
The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.
...after all, what is a planet but an island in space? - John Wyndham
...after all, what is a planet but an island in space?
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's? - John Wyndham
Why was I condemned to live in a democracy where every fool's vote is equal to a sensible man's?
The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital. - John Wyndham
The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital.
If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either. - John Wyndham
If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.
Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power. - John Wyndham
Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
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