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After two wars, I have been in danger too often to bother very much about being killed, and when it comes, I would prefer that it should happen in an aeroplane, since aeroplanes have been the best part of my life.

~Nevil Shute

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It's no good going on living in the ashes of a dead happiness.

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Aircraft do not crash of themselves. They come to grief because men are foolish, or vain, or lazy, or irresolute or reckless. One crash in a thousand may be unavoidable because God wills it so - not more than that.

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When I was first sent from H.M.S. King Alfred to be interviewed by Goodeve in the Admiralty, I was furious. The War seemed to me, in June of 1940, to be desperately serious, and England in imminent peril of invasion.

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Everybody pays lip service to the safety of the aeroplane, but nobody is prepared to pay for it.

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Biography

Nationality: British

Type: Novelist

Born: January 17th, 1899

Died: January 12th, 1960

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