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Quotes from The Enemy Stars — Poul Anderson

1926–2001 United States

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11 quotes

I do not think the coerced mind ever really learns an art.

The Enemy Stars (1959)

Pioneering is an unlimited chance to become the biggest frog, provided the puddle is small enough.

The Enemy Stars (1959)

You can have more adventure in an hour’s walk through a forest than in a year on a spaceship.

The Enemy Stars (1959)

People usually take for granted that the way things are is the way things must be.

The Enemy Stars (1959)

Life was too short for anything but amusement at the human race.

The Enemy Stars (1959)

Her rank was higher than his, so high that no one in her family worked productively.

The Enemy Stars (1959)

“Your son was in your own tradition.”
“Better, I hope,” said the old man. “There would be little sense to existence, did boys have no chance to be more than their fathers.”

The Enemy Stars (1959)

“Do you know,” said Maclaren, “there is one sin which is punished with unfailing certainty, and must therefore be the deadliest sin in all time. Stupidity.”

The Enemy Stars (1959)

Then they died.
And other men came after them. Wars flamed up and burned out; the howling peoples dwelt in smashed cities and kindled their fires with books.

The Enemy Stars (1959)

I’ll give you one thing to mull over, though. If the body’s such a valueless piece of pork, and we’ll all meet each other in the sweet bye and bye, and so on, why’re you busting every gut you own to get back to your wife?

The Enemy Stars (1959)

Hard to say whether personal immortality would be a good thing or not. Not for the masses, surely! Too many of them as it was. But a select few, like Terangi Maclaren—or was it worth the trouble? Even given boats, chess, music, the No Drama, beautiful women and beautiful spectroscopes, life could get heavy.

The Enemy Stars (1959)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Poul Anderson (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.