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The War of the Worlds quotes

H. G. Wells

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“What good is religion if it collapses under calamity? Think of what earthquakes and floods, wars and volcanoes, have done before to men! Did you think God had exempted Weybridge? He is not an insurance agent.” H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
“At times I suffer from the strangest sense of detachment from myself and the world about me; I seem to watch it all from the outside, from somewhere inconceivably remote, out of time, out of space, out of the stress and tragedy of it all.” H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
“It never was a war, any more than there's war between man and ants.” H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
“dying's none so dreadful; it's the funking makes it bad.” H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
“The contagion of such a unanimous fear was inevitable.” H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
“Night, the mother of fear and mystery, was coming upon me.” H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
“She had never been out of England before, she would rather die than trust herself friendless in a foreign country, and so forth. She seemed, poor woman, to imagine that the French and the Martians might prove very similar.” H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds
“It's no kindness to the right sort of wife . . . to make her a widow” H. G. Wells, The War of the Worlds

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