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Quotes from There Will Be Time — Poul Anderson

1926–2001 United States

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

There Will Be Time (1972)

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

There Will Be Time (1972)

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

There Will Be Time (1972)

Mortal combat corrupts, and war corrupts absolutely.

There Will Be Time (1972)

The air was cold and smelled of earth. Birds twittered. “Beyond one or two hundred years back,” Havig once said to me, “the daytime sky is always full of wings.”

There Will Be Time (1972)

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

There Will Be Time (1972)

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

There Will Be Time (1972)

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

There Will Be Time (1972)

One man, one vote: A legal doctrine requiring that, from time to time, old gerrymanders be replaced with new ones. The object of this is the achievement of genuine democracy.

There Will Be Time (1972)

As related, the bank was one of those eastern ones, with Roman pillars and cathedral dimness and, I suspect, a piece of Plymouth Rock in a reliquary.

There Will Be Time (1972)

Don’t get me wrong. These people are mine. I like and in many ways admire them. They’re the salt of the earth. It’s simply that I want other condiments too.

There Will Be Time (1972)

The old man murmured: “Aye, we draw to an end. Dying hurts. Nonetheless the forefathers were wise who in their myths made Nan coequal with Lesu. A thing which endured forever would become unendurable. Death opens a way, for peoples as well as for people.”

There Will Be Time (1972)

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