Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action. - Poul Anderson
Give fear no hold on you. Keep sinews loose and senses open, ready at every instant to flow with the rush of action.
- Poul Anderson
The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems. - Poul Anderson
The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.
There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals. - Poul Anderson
There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals.
A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort. - Poul Anderson
A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness. - Poul Anderson
Timidity can be as dangerous as rashness.
The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do … - Poul Anderson
The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do …
Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find. - Poul Anderson
Machines can only find what ignorant men have programmed them to find.
A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die. - Poul Anderson
A man isn't really alive till he has something bigger than himself and his own little happiness, for which he'd gladly die.
Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk. - Poul Anderson
Let us settle down to the serious business of getting drunk.
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