John Christopher Quotes

• As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.

  John Christopher

  Believe, People, Censorship

  John Christopher (2013). “When the Tripods Came”, p.56, Simon and Schuster

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• I was remembering the things we had done together, the times we had had. It would have been pleasant to preserve that comradeship in the days that came after. Pleasant, but alas, impossible. That which had brought us together had gone, and now our paths diverged, according to our natures and needs. We would meet again, from time to time, but always a little more as strangers; until perhaps at last, as old men with only memories left, we could sit together and try to share them.

  John Christopher

  Memories, Men, Trying

  John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.134, Simon and Schuster

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• Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.

  John Christopher

  Choices, Mind, Analysis

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• There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.

  John Christopher

  Thinking, Worst, Policy

  John Christopher (2013). “When the Tripods Came”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.

  John Christopher

  Gains, Life Decision, Loses

  John Christopher (2015). “Beyond the Burning Lands”, p.170, Simon and Schuster

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• We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.

  John Christopher

  Regret, Loss, Spurs

  John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.16, Simon and Schuster

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• Some people are oil and water.

  John Christopher

  Oil And Water, Oil, People

  John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.66, Simon and Schuster

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• His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.

  John Christopher

  Hot, Cold, Mines

  John Christopher (2013). “The Pool of Fire”, p.62, Simon and Schuster

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• I think before I act---and then think again. I am not entirely a coward, but I do not lose myself in action as you do.

  John Christopher

  Reflection, Thinking, Coward

  John Christopher (2015). “Beyond the Burning Lands”, p.164, Simon and Schuster

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• The secret of success in battle lies often not so much in the use of one's own strength but in the exploitation of the other side's weaknesses.

  John Christopher

  Lying, Secret, Battle

  John Christopher (2013). “When the Tripods Came”, p.5, Simon and Schuster

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• What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.

  John Christopher

  Mind, Tricks, Glad

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• And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.

  John Christopher

  Names, Faces, Remember

  John Christopher (2015). “The Sword of the Spirits”, p.109, Simon and Schuster

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• You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.

  John Christopher

  Fighter, Defeat, Accepting

  John Christopher (2015). “The Sword of the Spirits”, p.99, Simon and Schuster

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• We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.

  John Christopher

  Enemy, Stranger, Left

  John Christopher (2015). “The Prince in Waiting”, p.128, Simon and Schuster

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• It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.

  John Christopher

  Strong, Feelings

  John Christopher (2015). “The Sword of the Spirits”, p.29, Simon and Schuster

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• What men do matters more than what they know.

  John Christopher

  Men, Matter, Knows

  John Christopher (2015). “The Sword of the Spirits”, p.64, Simon and Schuster

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