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"Sooner or later the amateur always overreaches himself."
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John WyndhamYou can half-expect things. Try to face them in advance, case-harden y — John Wyndham
"You can half-expect things. Try to face them in advance, case-harden your mind, you think - but when they come, its always different."
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John Wyndham Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris was an English science fiction writer best known for his works published under the pen name John Wyndham, although he also used other combinations of his names, such as John Beynon and Lucas Parkes. Some of his works were set in post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951), filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos (
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"Theres plenty o chaps full of book learnin an unemployed with it."
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"The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us."
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"Was she a bit mad?" "Mad? Oh, no - unless you would call a failure to grow up a kind of madness - in which case there would be very few sane people."
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"She showed all that maternal solicitude which so oddly hopes that its child will be outstanding while being absolutely normal, distinguished while being indistinguishable."
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"The English," [Vinski] remarked at length, "have a saying that possession is nine points of the law. It is just the kind of sentiment one would expect to find in a capitalist country."
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