The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.
John WyndhamIf you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.
John WyndhamYou can't kill an idea the way they try to. You can keep it down awhile, but sooner or later it'll come out. Now what you've got to understand is that the wheel's not evil. Never mind what the scared men all tell you. no discovery is good or evil until men make it that way." -The Wheel, John Wtndham
John WyndhamTags: science-fiction short-stories the-wheel
Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
John WyndhamIf you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.
John WyndhamIt was all conveyed by the nicest, almost indetectably refined blend of sympathy and bitchiness...
John WyndhamTags: sympathy bitchiness
You don't seriously suggest that thet're talking when they make that rattling noise.
John WyndhamTags: rattling
The clock is the most sacred thing in a hospital
John WyndhamTags: sacred
To deprive a gregarious creature of companionship is to maim it, to outrage its nature. The prisoner and the cenobite are aware that the herd exists beyond their exile; they are an aspect of it. But when the herd no longer exists, there is, for the herd creature, no longer entity, a part of no whole; a freak without a place. If he cannot hold on to his reason, then he is lost indeed; most utterly, most fearfully lost, so that he becomes no more than the twitch in the limb of a corpse.
John WyndhamTags: loneliness isolation
Children have a different convention of the fearful until they have been taught the proper things to be shocked at.
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