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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

““I think you look on death as your friend,” she murmured. “That is a strange friend for a young man to have.”
“The only faithful friend in this world,” he said. “Death is always sure to be at your side.””

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Poul Anderson livre The Broken Sword

Source: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 21 (p. 148)

“Here was more than a question of law; it was a matter of whose will should prevail.”

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The Sorrow of Odin the Goth (p. 433)
Time Patrol

“Winter lay among the Outer Hebrides. Day was a sullen glimmer between two darknesses, often smothered in snow. When it did not fling itself upon the rocks and burst in freezing spume, the North Atlantic rolled in heavy and gnawing. There was no real horizon; leaden waves met leaden sky and misty leaden light hid the seam.”

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Poul Anderson livre The Enemy Stars

Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 2 (p. 8)

“Heim ignored the mob scene on the 3V, rested his eyes on the cold serenity of the Milky Way and thought that this, at least, would endure.”

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Poul Anderson livre The Star Fox

Section 1 “Marque and Reprisal”, Chapter IX (p. 69)
The Star Fox (1965)

“The end of the world—was the sky going to open up, would the angels pour down the vials of wrath on a shaking land, and would God appear to judge the sons of men? He listened for the noise of great galloping hoofs, but there was only the wind in the trees.
That was the worst of it. The sky didn’t care. The Earth went on turning through an endlessness of dark and silence, and what happened in the thin scum seething over its crust didn’t matter.”

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Poul Anderson livre Brain Wave

Source: Brain Wave (1954), Chapter 5 (p. 40)

“A little careful pushing, and they’ll bury the hatchet all right—in each other.”

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Poul Anderson livre Brain Wave

Source: Brain Wave (1954), Chapter 9 (p. 76)

““I really liked that girl.”
“Not loved, evidently,” I observed.
“N-n-no. I supposed not. Though what is love, anyway? Doesn’t it have so infinitely many kinds and degrees and mutations and quantum jumps that— Never mind.””

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 8 (p. 83)

“Mortal combat corrupts, and war corrupts absolutely.”

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 10 (p. 107)

““Your son was in your own tradition.”
“Better, I hope,” said the old man. “There would be little sense to existence, did boys have no chance to be more than their fathers.””

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Poul Anderson livre The Enemy Stars

Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 18 (p. 150)

“If anything does change man,” he said, “it’s science and technology. Just think about the fact—while it lasts—that parents need not take for granted some of their babies will die. You get a completely different concept of what a child is.”

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 6 (p. 60)

“Everard was not so sure; he had seen enough human misery in all the ages. You got case-hardened after a while, but down underneath, when a peasant stared at you with sick brutalized eyes, or a soldier screamed with a pike through him, or a city went up in radioactive flame, something wept. He could understand the fanatics who had tried to change events. It was only that their work was so unlikely to make anything better…”

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Delenda Est (p. 177)
Time Patrol

“They were not plagued that night, which Hugi said was without doubt because something worse was being prepared. Holger was inclined to share the dwarf’s pessimism.”

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Poul Anderson livre Three Hearts and Three Lions

Source: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 12 (p. 101)

“Li-Tsung of Krasna would have told him to live at all costs, sacrifice all the others, to save himself for his planet and the Fellowship. But there were limits. You didn’t have to accept Dave’s Calvinism—though its unmerciful God seemed very near this dead star—to swallow the truth that some things were more important than survival. Than even the survival of a cause.
Maybe I’m trying to find out what those things are, he thought confusedly.”

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Poul Anderson livre The Enemy Stars

Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 11 (p. 92)

“It was lonely, not even knowing yourself.”

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Poul Anderson livre Three Hearts and Three Lions

Source: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 4 (p. 41)

“Did ignorance save his freedom, or merely his illusion of freedom?”

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 12 (p. 130)

“What’s to explain? I’ve scant use for those types whose chief interest is their grubby little personal neuroses. Not in a universe as rich as this.”

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Poul Anderson livre Tau Zero

Source: Tau Zero (1970), Chapter 8 (p. 80)

“You cannot imagine how wearisome existence grows, alone and immortal.”

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Poul Anderson livre Three Hearts and Three Lions

Source: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 19 (p. 177)

“I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.”

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Often referred to as Anderson's Law.
Cited in:
Project Management: A Systems Approach to Planning, Scheduling, and Controlling by Harold Kerzner. Google Books http://books.google.com/books?id=4CqvpWwMLVEC&pg=PA246. Accessed September 5, 2009.
Checkland, P.B. (1985). Formulating problems in Systems Analysis. In: Miser, H. J. and Quade E. S. (eds.) (1985). Handbook of Systems Analysis: Overview of Uses, Procedures, Applications, and Practice. Chapter 5, pp. 151-170. North-Holland, New York.
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“Then they died.
And other men came after them. Wars flamed up and burned out; the howling peoples dwelt in smashed cities and kindled their fires with books.”

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Poul Anderson livre The Enemy Stars

Prologue (p. 1)
The Enemy Stars (1959)

“Pioneering is an unlimited chance to become the biggest frog, provided the puddle is small enough.”

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Poul Anderson livre The Enemy Stars

Source: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 5 (p. 31)

“The air was cold and smelled of earth. Birds twittered. “Beyond one or two hundred years back,” Havig once said to me, “the daytime sky is always full of wings.””

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 6 (p. 60)

“People usually take for granted that the way things are is the way things must be.”

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Poul Anderson livre The Enemy Stars

Foreward (p. v)
The Enemy Stars (1959)

“Be calm. A man can do but little. Enough if that little be right.”

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Poul Anderson livre There Will Be Time

Source: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 11 (p. 126)

“All those agonizing philosophical-theological conundrums amount to "Ask a silly question, get a silly answer."”

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Source: Harvest of Stars (1993), Ch. 63

““Are you that afraid to die?”
“No. I simply like to live.””

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Poul Anderson livre Tau Zero

Source: Tau Zero (1970), Chapter 7 (p. 78)

“The last thing any sane person wants is a jihad.”

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Poul Anderson livre The Star Fox

Section 2 “Arsenal Port”, Chapter VIII (p. 133)
The Star Fox (1965)

“We're mortal - which is to say, we're ignorant, stupid, and sinful - but those are only handicaps. Our pride is that nevertheless, now and then, we do our best. A few times we succeed. What more dare we ask for?”

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Ensign Flandry (1966)

“And ninety-nine percent of the human race, no matter how smart they are, will do the convenient thing instead of the wise thing, and kid themselves into thinking they can somehow escape the consequences. We’re just built that way.”

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Poul Anderson livre Brain Wave

Source: Brain Wave (1954), Chapter 4 (p. 28)

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