“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.”
JW
“The world has so multiplied the causes of fear that no one is left entirely unafraid.”
John Wyndham
“There are, of course, risks. In fact, there are three distinct kinds of risk: the known ones which we can and shall prepare against; the known ones which we must trust to luck to avoid; and the entire...”
John Wyndham
“Poor baby, what a world to come into.”
John Wyndham
“One hears of the Industrial Revolution as though it were a mere phase, finished and done with. It is not, and it shows no sign of ever being completed.”
John Wyndham
“She had an exasperating feeling that there was a principle somewhere that she had missed; a principle which once grasped would make the whole thing as clear as daylight. But if there was it continued ...”
John Wyndham