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Helen MacInnes
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“Expect the worst, and you won't be disappointed.”
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“The mind is more vulnerable than the stomach, because it can be poisoned without feeling immediate pain.”
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“... one doesn't measure friendship by length of time only; depth of time is just as valuable.”
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“Life to most Greeks may be either tragic or comic or a mixture of both; but one thing it never is — and that is, meaningless.”
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“Nihilists expend everything and everyone except themselves. They are the indispensable men, without whom the world might try to live almost happily.”
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“Just remember enough never to be vulnerable again: total forgetting could be as self-destructive as complete remembering.”
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“But how meager one's life becomes when it is reduced to its basic facts. ... And the last, most complete, reduction is on one's tombstone: a name, two dates. ”
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“Civilization is a perishable commodity.”
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“And it's the educated barbarian who is the worst: he knows what to destroy.”
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“The sad discovery of the adult world was the permanent truth: you don't always do what you want to do; you do what you must.”
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“Inquisitive people aren't really very attractive, are they?”
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“Men who use terrorism as a means to power, rule by terror once they are in power.”
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“Nothing is interesting if you're not interested.”
Helen MacInnes, Scottish-born U.S. writer
(1907 - 1985)
Full name: Helen Clark MacInnes Highet.