Quotes from Vault of the Ages — Poul Anderson
1926–2001 United States
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His will grew tight again. This was no age for weaklings. You had to do whatever seemed best, without letting gods or men or the lower devils deter you.
Vault of the Ages (1952)
“I wonder if there are any gods at all—if they aren’t just another story.”
Tom and Owl shrank from him. But no lightning struck.
Vault of the Ages (1952)
A world of life and mystery, a world of splendor and striving and wistful beauty. Yes, it was good to live, and even if he was now to join the sun in an endless night, he was glad of what he had been given.
Vault of the Ages (1952)
What was right? A man should live justly—but too often it was hard to say which was the road of justice. At any rate, this war was not a struggle of evil against good, black against white; it was a fight between many human beings, none of whom was wholly bad or wholly good.
Vault of the Ages (1952)
“Peace,” he added, “is kept by the good will and strength of the peaceful.”
Vault of the Ages (1952)
There was a huge sadness in it—the little men of today, gnawing apart the mighty works they no longer understood. In a few hundred years, or a few thousand, what did it matter? Nothing would be left, nothing but rubble and waving grass and the wild dogs howling where men had once lived.
Vault of the Ages (1952)