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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

““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 książka The Broken Sword

Źródło: 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 książka The Enemy Stars

Źródło: 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 książka 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 książka Brain Wave

Źródło: 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 książka Brain Wave

Źródło: 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 książka There Will Be Time

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

“Mortal combat corrupts, and war corrupts absolutely.”

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Poul Anderson książka There Will Be Time

Źródło: 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 książka The Enemy Stars

Źródło: 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 książka There Will Be Time

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

“Know that against time the gods themselves are powerless.”

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The Sorrow of Odin the Goth (p. 457)
Time Patrol

“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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Poul Anderson

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 książka Three Hearts and Three Lions

Źródło: 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 książka The Enemy Stars

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

“It was lonely, not even knowing yourself.”

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Poul Anderson książka Three Hearts and Three Lions

Źródło: 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 książka There Will Be Time

Źródło: 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 książka Tau Zero

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

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

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Poul Anderson książka Three Hearts and Three Lions

Źródło: 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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Poul Anderson

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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