John Wyndham citáty
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Datum narození:10. červenec 1903
Datum úmrtí:11. březen 1969
John Wyndham, občanským jménem John William Parkes Lucas Beynon Harris byl britský spisovatel, autor sci-fi .
Je známý především svým bestsellerem Den Trifidů. Příběh o tom, jak neznámý déšť meteorů způsobí u většiny lidstva slepotu a jak toho využijí průmyslové rostliny trifidi, které náhle ukáží své zcela nečekané vlastnosti a zaútočí na lidi.
Citáty John Wyndham
„And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.“
— John Wyndham
The Day of the Triffids
„So you're in love with her?' she went on.
A word again... When the minds have learnt to mingle, when no thought is wholly one's own, and each has taken too much of the other ever to be entirely himself alone; when one has reached the beginning of seeing with a single eye, loving with a single heart, enjoying with a single joy; when there can be moments of identity and nothing is separate save bodies that long for one another... When there is that, where is the word? There is only the inadequacy of the word that exists.
'We love one another,' I said.“
— John Wyndham
The Chrysalids
„I don't think it had ever occurred to me that man's supremacy is not primarily due to his brain, as most of the books would have one think. It is due to the brain's capacity to make use of the information conveyed to it by a narrow band of visible light rays. His civilization, all that he had achieved or might achieve, hung upon his ability to perceive that range of vibrations from red to violet. Without that, he was lost.“
— John Wyndham
The Day of the Triffids
„I shall pray to God to send charity to this hideous world, and sympathy for the weak, and love for the unhappy and unfortunate. I shall ask Him if is indeed His will that a child should suffer and its soul be damned for a little blemish on the body.... And I shall pray Him, too, that the hearts of the self-righteous may be broken...“
— John Wyndham
The Chrysalids
