Quotes by John Christopher - Page 1

Some people are oil and water.
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Oil
Oil And Water
People
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What men do matters more than what they know.
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Men
Knows
Matter
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There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.
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Gains
Life Decision
Loses
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His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.
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Cold
Hot
Mines
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As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.
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Believe
Censorship
People
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It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.
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Feelings
Strong
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What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.
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Glad
Mind
Tricks
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And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.
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Faces
Names
Remember
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There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.
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Policy
Thinking
Worst
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A reader should know what he might reasonably expect under a particular label.
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Reader
Label
Reasonably
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The original version of 'The White Mountains' was probably just about worth publishing.
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Publishing
Version
Original
Mountains
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We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.
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Enemy
Left
Stranger
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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.
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Loss
Regret
Spurs
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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.
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Accepting
Defeat
Fighter
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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.
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Coward
Reflection
Thinking
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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.
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Analysis
Choices
Mind
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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.
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Battle
Lying
Secret
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In the early stages of writing children's books, an experienced lady editor said that while girls read boys' books, the converse was not true, and I may have been influenced by that.
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Converse
Editor
Experienced
Influenced
Lady
Stages
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The apple which tempts my characters is the one that will remove the knowledge of good and evil. I suppose it's something of a reversal of the conventional Eden story: Freedom of thought is perhaps the greatest good, and needs to be fought for and sacrificed for.
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Knowledge
Conventional
Eden
Evil
Good And Evil
Needs
Remove
Reversal
Greatest
Apple
Fought
Suppose
Perhaps
Sacrificed
Story
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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.
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Men
Memories
Trying
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