How small the vastest of human catastrophes may seem at a distance of a few million miles.

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About H. G. Wells

Portrait of H. G. Wells

Herbert George Wells (21 September 1866 – 13 August 1946) was an English writer, prolific in many genres. He wrote more than forty novels and dozens of short stories. His non-fiction output included works of social commentary, politics, history, popular science, satire, biography, and autobiography. Wells is most known today...

More quotations from H. G. Wells

The forceps of our minds are clumsy forceps, and crush the truth a little in taking hold of it.

Human history becomes more and more a race between education and catastrophe.

The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf—it's almost a law.

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Every time I see an adult on a bicycle, I no longer despair for the future of the human race.

Moral indignation is jealousy with a halo.

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Before you criticize someone, you should walk a mile in their shoes. That way when you criticize them, you are a mile away from them and you have their shoes.

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Strangely enough, this is the past that somebody in the future is longing to go back to.

—Ashleigh Brilliant

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People who say you're just as old as you feel are all wrong, fortunately.

—Russell Baker

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Unless you've touched a corpse before, you can't comprehend the visceral wrongness of inert flesh wrapped around an inanimate object that wears your mother's face. You feel sick with guilt and regret and sadness about inconsequential anecdote. You can't remember anything thoughtful or sweet or tender that you ever did even though logically you know you must have. All you can recall is how often you were small and petty and false. She was your mother and she loved you in a way nobody ever has and nobody ever will and now she's gone.

—Elan Mastai in All Our Wrong Todays

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A life can be defined by its hardships or its blessings. It's all a matter of how you look at it.

—Penelope Ward in Stepbrother Dearest

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