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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?

— Poul Anderson The Enemy Stars (1959)

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For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death.

The Long Way Home (1955)

Man’s duty in this life, he thought, is to choose the lesser evil.

The People of the Wind (1973)

“Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.”

The Corridors of Time (1965)

Time is the bridge that always burns behind us.

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

The Broken Sword (1954)

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