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Quotes from Stowaway to Mars (originally Planet Plane / The Space Machine) — John Wyndham

1903–1969 England

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The world has so multiplied the causes of fear that no one is left entirely unafraid.

Stowaway to Mars (originally Planet Plane / The Space Machine) (1935)

"We have had a glorious past—but a glorious past is bitterness for a child with a hopeless future."

Stowaway to Mars (originally Planet Plane / The Space Machine) (1935)

"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."

Stowaway to Mars (originally Planet Plane / The Space Machine) (1935)

Poor baby, what a world to come into.

Stowaway to Mars (originally Planet Plane / The Space Machine) (1935)

"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 entirely unknown."

Stowaway to Mars (originally Planet Plane / The Space Machine) (1935)

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 to elude her.

Stowaway to Mars (originally Planet Plane / The Space Machine) (1935)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: John Wyndham (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.