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День триффидов
Джон УиндемДжон Уиндем знаменитые цитаты
„…Я слышал, как звезду звала
Ее далекая сестра
Полночным писком комара.“
писк, комар
Источник: романы
Джон Уиндем цитаты
„Моя голова все еще была набита условностями и нравственными стандартами, которые утратили смысл.“
голова
Источник: День триффидов
„Жизнь такова, какой ты её делаешь.“
жизнь
Источник: День триффидов
„Измененные условия должны повлечь за собой изменение взглядов.“
взгляд
Источник: День триффидов
„По-моему, лучше быть пиратами, чем пиратской добычей, - возразил я.“
добыча
Источник: День триффидов
He wrote effectively for a specific British market at a specific point in time — the period of recuperation that followed World War Two — and he will be remembered for the half decade or so during which he was able to express in telling images the hopes, fears and resurgent hopefulness of a readership that recognized a kindred spirit.
комментарий Вл. Гакова: «Похожее, помнится, говорилось за полвека до того в отношении Уэллса.»
Джон Клют, Энциклопедия научной фантастики
Источник: Wyndham, John http://sf-encyclopedia.com/entry/wyndham_john // SFE: The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction, online edition, 2005—.
Станислав Лем, «Science fiction: безнадёжный случай с исключениями», 1972
Джон Уиндем: Цитаты на английском языке
“Cruelty is as old as life itself.”
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 19 - p.200 [Joseph]
“The law punishes the criminal after he has been successful: it is no use to us.”
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 18 - p.182 [Eric]
“The dove is not a coward to fear the hawk; it is simply wise.”
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 16 - p.147 [Zellaby]
Источник: Book opening line. (Ch.1, p.7) [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1954 reprint.]
“And we danced, on the brink of an unknown future, to an echo from a vanished past.”
Источник: The Day of the Triffids
“If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.”
Источник: The Chrysalids
“Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.”
Источник: The Midwich Cuckoos
“Why should I? I've done nothing to be ashamed of. I am not ashamed - I am only beaten”
Источник: The Chrysalids
“There was often a great deal of grown-up fuss that seemed disproportionate to causes.”
Источник: Ch 1 - p.391, 392 [Page numbers per the Michael Joseph "The John Wyndham Omnibus" hardback 1964. 'The Chrysalids' features at pp.383-532
“If you want to keep alive in the jungle, you must live as the jungle does.”
Источник: The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 21 - p.220 [Zellaby]
“The wise lamb does not enrage the lion, it placates him, plays for time, and hopes for the best.”
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 21 - p.213 [Zellaby]
“And, after all, what is a planet but an island in space?”
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), Ch 19 - p.205 [Zellaby]
“Nobody, nobody but a child, or a child-minded person, expects life to be fair.”
The Midwich Cuckoos (1957), ch 9 - p.70 [Angela] [Page numbers per the Penguin Books paperback, 1982 reprint.]
“We've got it all there in the books if we take the trouble to find out about it.”
The Day of the Triffids (1951), ch 12 - p.204
“Bored! My God, to think that I could ever have been bored up there.”
Pt. II, Ch. II - p.64
Novels, The Secret People (1935)
