Poul Anderson Short Quotes

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'Tis colder outside than a well-born maiden's heart.

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Mortal combat corrupts, and war corrupts absolutely.

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We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?

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Over unforced love, the gods themselves had no might.

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Are you that afraid to die?
No. I simply like to live.

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The cell is a sea where molecules drift on thermal tides.

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Anybody can find infinite Mandelbrot figures in his navel.

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Be calm. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.

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Did ignorance save his freedom, or merely his illusion of freedom?

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You cannot imagine how wearisome existence grows, alone and immortal.

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Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.

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On our Earth, we've perforce learned all the knavery there is to know.

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You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.

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A cultured, sensitive, observant man is a pleasure to be with in any age.

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His conscience must have gotten tired of nagging him and delivered an ultimatum.

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A little careful pushing, and they'll bury the hatchet all right—in each other.

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You should pay no heed to what some yokel priest has prated of. What does he know?

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A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.

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He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.

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There really wasn't much in a man's life that mattered. But those few things mattered terribly.

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My knowledge of the human psyche is as yet imperfect. Certain areas won't yield to computation.

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Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.

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He'd seen too often how little of the universe is designed for man to neglect any safety measure.

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Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden's arms.

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If we knew exactly what to expect throughout the Solar System, we would have no reason to explore it.

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Holger wished he had read the old tales more closely; he had only a dim childhood recollection of them.

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I walk beyond town, many of these nights, to stand under the high autumnal stars, look upward and wonder.

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All those agonizing philosophical-theological conundrums amount to "Ask a silly question, get a silly answer."

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A fanatic's willingness to kill or be killed in the service of a cause cannot prove the rightness of that cause.

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I say that a God who would come between two who have been to each other what we have been, is not one I would heed.

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