There's no dignity, no decency, or health today for men that haven't got a job. All other things depend on work today.
Nevil ShuteHere they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!
Nevil ShuteTags: humor death illness disease measles radioactivity submarines
I never was in such a horrid office . . . It's not very nice to be where people are being swindled all day long, is it?
Nevil ShuteTags: fraud
Without work men are utterly undone.
Nevil ShuteTags: labor
The thing most worth doing in this modern world [is to] create jobs that men can work at, and be proud of, and make money by their work.
Nevil ShuteTags: labor-activism
You cannot argue stupidity, you just have to accept it patiently as one of those things.
Nevil ShuteTags: stupidity
I'm glad we haven't got newspapers now. It's been much nicer without them.
Nevil ShuteTags: newspapers
I know you've taken risks to do these things. Do Please be careful."
"Don't worry about me," he said. "You've got enough troubles on your own plate, my word. But we'll come out all right, so long as we just keep alive, that's all we got to do. Just keep alive another two years, till the war's over.
You can only do a thing for the first time once, and that goes for falling in love.
Nevil ShuteShe looked at him in wonder. "Do people think of me like that? I only did what anybody could have done."
"That's as it may be," he replied. "The fact is, that you did it.
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