Literary Birthday – 10 July – John Wyndham
John Wyndham was born on 10 July 1903 and died on 11 March 1969.
John Wyndham Quotes
- Knowledge is simply a kind of fuel; it needs the motor of understanding to convert it into power.
- It must be, I thought, one of the race’s most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that “it can’t happen here” — that one’s own time and place is beyond cataclysm.
- The essential quality of life is living’ the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.
- And again there are no words. Words exist that can, used by a poet, achieve a dim monochrome of the body’s love, but beyond that they fail clumsily.
John Wyndham was an English science-fiction writer. He examined the human struggle for survival when catastrophic natural phenomena suddenly invade a comfortable English setting. Some of his writing uses post-apocalyptic landscapes. His best known works include The Day of the Triffids (1951), filmed in 1962, and The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), which was filmed in 1960 as Village of the Damned, in 1995 under the same title, and again in 2022 under its original title.
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by Amanda Patterson
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