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“Knowing makes all the difference... It's the difference between just trying to keep alive, and having something to live for”

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John Wyndham

John Wyndham was an English science fiction writer known for his novels that often explore social and environmental issues. His works are renowned for their unique imagination and profound insights. more

“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.”

Ifs Reason Whole Lost Creatures Aspect Prisoner Freak Entity Companionship Limbs Exile Corpses Herds Outrage Gregarious

Author:John Wyndham

“The simple rely on a bolstering mass of maxim and precept, so do the timid, so do the mentally lazy – and so do all of us, more than we imagine.”

Simple Imagine Mass Rely Lazy Maxims

Book:The Day of the Triffids

Source: The Day of the Triffids

“No... souls are just counters for churches to collect, all the same value, like nails. No, what makes man man is mind; it's not a thing, it's a quality, and minds aren't all the same value; they're better or worse, and the better they are, the more they mean.”

Men Mind Mean Soul Values Church Quality Nails

Author:John Wyndham

“Men go and come, but earth abides.”

Men Earth

Book:Earth Abides

Source: Earth Abides

“The trouble you're expecting never happens; it's always something that sneaks up the other way.”

Way Happens Trouble Expecting Sneak

Book:Earth Abides

Source: Earth Abides

“As for man, there is little reason to think that he can in the long run escape the fate of other creatures, and if there is a biological law of flux and reflux, his situation is now a highly perilous one. During ten thousand years his numbers have been on the upgrade in spite of wars, pestilences, and famines. This increase in population has become more and more rapid. Biologically, man has for too long a time been rolling an uninterrupted run of sevens.”

Source: Earth Abides

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