“There must, I think, be a great many people who go around just longing to be baffled.” — John Wyndham, The Kraken Wakes
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“Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.” — John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
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“’Some quotations,’ said Zellaby, ‘are greatly improved by lack of context.’” — John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos
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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.” — John Wyndham, The Chrysalids
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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 cataclysms.” — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
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“We all have our youthful follies embarrassing 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, The Day of the Triffids
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“When a day that you happen to know is Wednesday starts off by sounding like Sunday, there is something seriously wrong somewhere.” — John Wyndham, The Day of the Triffids
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