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Poul William Anderson, né le 25 novembre 1926 à Bristol en Pennsylvanie et mort le 31 juillet 2001 à Orinda en Californie, est un écrivain américain de science-fiction et de fantasy. Wikipedia  

✵ 25. novembre 1926 – 31. juillet 2001
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Poul Anderson: Citations en anglais

“A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.”

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Source: Harvest of Stars

“On our Earth, we’ve perforce learned all the knavery there is to know.”

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Poul Anderson livre The High Crusade

Source: The High Crusade (1960), p. 131

“I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had barely been touched on… It's perfectly obvious that two completely revolutionary things are going on, with cybernetics, and biological science.”

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Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction (1997)

““Do you actually hope to convert the whole of mankind?”
“Belay that! Anyhow, if you mean, Do we hope to make everybody into copies of us? The answer is, No. Mind, I’m not in Parliament or Admiralty, but I follow debates and I read the philosophers. One trouble with the old machine culture was that, by its nature, it did force people to become more and more alike. Not only did this fail in the end—disastrously—but to the extent it succeeded, it was a worse disaster.” Lohannaso smote the rail with a mighty fist. “Damnation, Thomas! We need all the diversity, all the assorted ways of living and looking and thinking, we can get!””

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 119)

“Hurry and hurry, autumn leaves hurrying on the rainy wind, snow hurrying out of the sky, life hurrying to death, gods hurrying to oblivion.”

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Poul Anderson livre The Broken Sword

Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 3 (p. 9)

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

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Poul Anderson livre The Broken Sword

Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 55)

“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.”

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 5 (p. 52)

“Light fills the air, wind is aglow, drink of it, breathe of it, make leafing.
Rainfall sows itself, it grows down through soil to the secret places where stones abide; it brings the strength of them up rootward.
Lie still, molder away, then be again grass.”

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Source: Harvest of Stars (1993), Ch. 55

“Life isn’t a fairy tale; the knight who kills the dragon doesn’t necessarily get the princess. So what? Who’d want to live in a cosmos less rich and various than the real one?”

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Poul Anderson livre The Star Fox

Section 3 “Admiralty”, Chapter X (p. 207)
The Star Fox (1965)

“So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption is one culture in the future, more or less like ours, and with the same ideals, the same notions of how to do things, just bigger and flashier technology. Well, you know darn well it doesn't work that way…”

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Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction (1997)

“You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.”

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"Garden in the Void" (1952)
Short fiction

““At least we can put a little sense into life.”
“I don’t know whether we do or whether we find what was always there,” he replied. “Nor do I care greatly. To me, the important thing is that the purpose—order, beauty, spirit, whatever you want to call it—does exist.””

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Poul Anderson livre The Enemy Stars

Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 18 (p. 148)

“You should pay no heed to what some yokel priest has prated of. What does he know?”

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Poul Anderson livre The Broken Sword

Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 11 (p. 70)

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

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 16 (p. 176; closing words)

“Another irritating thing about Naqsans was their habit of solemnly repeating the obvious. In that respect they were almost as bad as humans.”

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Poul Anderson livre The Star Fox

Section 2 “Arsenal Port”, Chapter III (p. 90)
The Star Fox (1965)

“We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?”

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"The Fatal Fulfillment" (Short Story), March 1970. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Short fiction

“For himself, he had never thought it would be this bad. He had stopped remembering her, except maybe ten times a day, but now she came to him and the forgetting would have to be done all over again.”

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Brave To Be a King (p. 63)
Time Patrol

“I’m still spry, but I feel the teeth gnawing, and believe me, my friends, it was better to be young.”

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Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks (p. 314)
Time Patrol

“Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.”

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Gibraltar Falls (p. 118)
Time Patrol

“Missile: A self-contained device which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Saigon, Da Nang, Hué, etc. Cf. bombing.”

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Variante: Bombing: A method of warfare which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Osaka, etc., though not Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Cf. missile.
Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 3 (p. 30)

“But your sign says you can conjure up ever-filled purses,” Holger began.
“Advertising,” Martinus admitted. “Corroborative detail intended to lend artistic verisimilitude.”

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Poul Anderson livre Three Hearts and Three Lions

Source: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 17 (p. 162)

“Above everything else, perhaps, was today’s concept of working together. I don’t mean its totalitarian version, for which Jack Havig had total loathing, or that “togetherness,” be it in a corporation or a commune, which he despised. I mean an enlightened pragmatism that rejects self-appointed aristocrats, does not believe received doctrine is necessarily true, stands ready to hear and weigh what anyone has to offer, and maintains well-developed channels to carry all ideas to the leadership and back again.”

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 14 (p. 155)

“I think most human misery is due to well-meaning fanatics like him.”

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Time Patrol (p. 42)
Time Patrol

“Too far a retreat from reality is insanity.”

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Poul Anderson livre Brain Wave

Source: Brain Wave (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 82)

“Holger wished he had read the old tales more closely; he had only a dim childhood recollection of them.”

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Poul Anderson livre Three Hearts and Three Lions

Source: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 10 (p. 88)

““You are much too kind,” said Holger, overwhelmed.
“Nay.” Alfric waved his hand. “You mortals know not how tedious undying life can become, and how gladly a challenge such as this is greeted. ’Tis I should thank you.””

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Poul Anderson livre Three Hearts and Three Lions

Source: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 7 (p. 64)

“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.”

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 1 (p. 10)

“She rarely saw priest—and knowing her heart sinned, was glad of that. Dreary was a church after the woodlands and hills and sounding sea. She still loved God—and was not the earth His work, and a church only man’s?—but she could not bring herself to call on Him very often.”

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Poul Anderson livre The Broken Sword

Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 24 (p. 174)

“As evil waxes, the very men who stand for good will in their fear use ever worse means o’ fighting, and thereby give evil a free beachhead.”

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Poul Anderson livre Three Hearts and Three Lions

Source: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 12 (p. 102)

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