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„Jeden człowiek nie może zmienić historii.”

Poul Anderson książka Sam Hall

Postać: Thornberg
Sam Hall

„Och, zabiłem człowieka, tak mówili, tak mówili.
Tak zabiłem człowieka, tak mówili, tak mówili
Rąbnąłem go w łeb
I porzuciłem, żeby skapiał
Tak, porzuciłem, żeby skapiał
Niech Bóg przeklnie jego oczy.”

Poul Anderson książka Sam Hall

Now I killed a man they said
So they said, so they said
Oh I killed a man they said
Yes they said
I killed a man they said
And I left him layin dead
Cause I bashed his bloody head
Blast his eyes. (ang.)
Sam Hall
Źródło: Sam Hall, ludowa piosenka angielska

„Kiedy przegraliśmy III Wojnę Światową musieliśmy zmilitaryzować społeczeństwo i kraj, żeby wygrać czwarta, a później dla własnego bezpieczeństwa musieliśmy objąć kontrola całą ludzkość.”

Poul Anderson książka Sam Hall

Postać: Sorensen
Sam Hall

„Ludzie (…) nigdy nie doceniają wolności, aż ja stracą. Zawsze są gotowi sprzedać swe prawo za miskę soczewicy.”

Poul Anderson książka Sam Hall

Postać: Thornberg
Sam Hall

„Wsunięcie całkowicie fałszywej szpuli do pamięci Matyldy nie było łatwe. Nie można było po prostu kopiować numerów, a przecież każdy obywatel posiadał ich mnóstwo. Należało odtworzyć, a raczej stworzyć każdy dzień życia.”

Poul Anderson książka Sam Hall

Sam Hall

„Sam Hall to piosenka angielska, a więc Sam Hall powinien być Brytyjczykiem. Przybył do Ameryki z rodzicami, powiedzmy, jakieś 38 lat temu jako trzyletnie dziecko i naturalizował się razem z nimi, zanim jeszcze wprowadzono całkowity zakaz imigracji. Wychował się w dolnej części East Side, twardy dzieciak nowojorskich slumsów. Świadectwa szkolne zaginęły w bombardowaniu, ale twierdził, że ukończył 10 klas. Żadnych krewnych. Kawaler bez rodziny i bez określonego zawodu. Pracował gdzie popadło jako robotnik niewykwalifikowany.”

Poul Anderson książka Sam Hall

o tworzeniu tożsamości.
Sam Hall

„W piersi Thornberga rosła zimna kula. Nigdy nie ma pewności czy rozmowa nie jest nagrywana.”

Poul Anderson książka Sam Hall

Sam Hall

Poul Anderson: Cytaty po angielsku

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

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Źródło: Harvest of Stars

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

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Poul Anderson książka The High Crusade

Źródło: 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 książka There Will Be Time

Źródło: 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 książka The Broken Sword

Źródło: 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 książka The Broken Sword

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

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Poul Anderson książka There Will Be Time

Źródło: 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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Źródło: 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 książka 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 książka The Enemy Stars

Źródło: 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 książka The Broken Sword

Źródło: 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 książka There Will Be Time

Źródło: 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 książka 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 książka There Will Be Time

Wariant: 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.
Źródło: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 3 (p. 30)