More quotes by Poul Anderson
For the ordinary man, instability—change—means dislocation, war, uncertainty, misery, and death.
Man’s duty in this life, he thought, is to choose the lesser evil.
“Destiny,” said John. “The ghastliest word a man can speak.”
Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.
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