John Christopher
As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.Collection: Believe
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.Collection: Memories
Morality, for all the conditioning to which the human mind has been and is subjected, is always a personal choice in the last analysis.Collection: Choices
There are times when thinking about something is the worst possible policy.Collection: Thinking
There is always something to lose. But maybe more to gain.Collection: Gains
We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.Collection: Regret
Some people are oil and water.Collection: Oil And Water
His anger was as great as mine, but hot where mine was cold.Collection: Hot
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.Collection: Reflection
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.Collection: Lying
What tricks the mind is what the mind is glad to be tricked by.Collection: Mind
And though I remember her name I cannot recall her face. All things pass.Collection: Names
You would always beat me; not so much because you are a better fighter as because you will not accept defeat.Collection: Fighter
We had been friends. We could not become strangers. It left only one thing: we must be enemies.Collection: Enemy
It is because they are so strong that she hides her feelings.Collection: Strong
What men do matters more than what they know.Collection: Men