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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

“One man, one vote: A legal doctrine requiring that, from time to time, old gerrymanders be replaced with new ones. The object of this is the achievement of genuine democracy.”

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Poul Anderson książka There Will Be Time

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

“Her rank was higher than his, so high that no one in her family worked productively.”

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Poul Anderson książka The Enemy Stars

Źródło: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 1 (p. 4)

“Hard to say whether personal immortality would be a good thing or not. Not for the masses, surely! Too many of them as it was. But a select few, like Terangi Maclaren—or was it worth the trouble? Even given boats, chess, music, the No Drama, beautiful women and beautiful spectroscopes, life could get heavy.”

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Poul Anderson książka The Enemy Stars

Źródło: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 5 (p. 36)

“I’m afraid I’m not a convert or anything. I still see the same blind cosmos governed by the same blind laws. But suddenly it matters. It matters terribly, and means something. What, I haven’t figured out yet. I probably never will. But I have a reason for living, or for dying if need be. Maybe that’s the whole purpose of life: purpose itself. I can’t say. But I expect to enjoy the world a lot more.”

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Poul Anderson książka The Enemy Stars

Źródło: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 15 (p. 129)

“Better a life like a falling star, bright across the dark, than a deathlessness which can see naught above or beyond itself.”

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Poul Anderson książka The Broken Sword

In the first edition of the book, this quote reads: Better a life like a falling star, brief and bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
Źródło: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 28 (p. 206)

“Keep on thinking. Keep your thinking close to the ground, where it belongs. Don’t ever trade your liberty for another man’s offer to do your thinking and make your mistakes for you.”

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Poul Anderson książka Brain Wave

Źródło: Brain Wave (1954), Chapter 3 (p. 25)

“He was no respecter of windy theories about inborn racial traits, but there was something to be said for traditions so ancient as to be unconscious and ineradicable.”

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Poul Anderson

Delenda Est (p. 192)
Time Patrol

“I’ll give you one thing to mull over, though. If the body’s such a valueless piece of pork, and we’ll all meet each other in the sweet bye and bye, and so on, why’re you busting every gut you own to get back to your wife?”

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Poul Anderson książka The Enemy Stars

Źródło: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 11 (p. 87)

““You are very honest about the situation of your own country.”
Deirdre said roughly, “Most of us won’t admit it, but I think it best to look truth in the eyes.””

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Delenda Est (pp. 202-203)
Time Patrol

“For a space he faltered, when Goltan fell with a spear through him. “Now I am one friend poorer,” he said, “and that is a wealth not gained back.””

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Poul Anderson książka The Broken Sword

Źródło: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 65)

“Inland, all except criminals lived in a tightly pulled net of regulations, duties, social standing, tax collection, expectations of how to act and speak and think—“sort of like late twentieth-century USA” Everard grumbled to himself.”

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Death and the Knight (p. 752)
Time Patrol

“Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.”

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Poul Anderson książka There Will Be Time

Źródło: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 16 (p. 175)

“A cultured, sensitive, observant man is a pleasure to be with in any age.”

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Poul Anderson książka There Will Be Time

Źródło: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 97)

“The universe held as many surprises as it did stars. No, more. That was its glory. But someday one of them was bound to kill you.”

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Poul Anderson książka The Boat of a Million Years

Źródło: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 19 “Thule”, Section 32 (p. 517)

“What’s the point of our living all these centuries if we haven’t grown up even a little?”

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Poul Anderson książka The Boat of a Million Years

Źródło: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 19 “Thule”, Section 27 (p. 482)

“Before the spirit could seek into it, the mind must. She studied the tensor equations as once she studied the sutras, she meditated upon the koans of science, and at last she began to feel her oneness with all that was, and in the vision find peace.”

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Poul Anderson książka The Boat of a Million Years

Źródło: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 19 “Thule”, Section 18 (p. 449)

“I don’t pretend to understand what the physicists mean by time, but for people, it isn’t so-and-so many measured units; it’s events, experiences. A man who crowds his life and dies young has lived longer than one who got old sitting in tame sameness.”

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Poul Anderson książka The Boat of a Million Years

Źródło: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 19 “Thule”, Section 14 (p. 441)

“We Russians have learned to fear anarchy above all else. We would rather have tyranny than it. Hanno, you do wrong to look on people’s republics, strong governments of every kind, as always evil. Freedom is perhaps better, but chaos is worse.”

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Poul Anderson książka The Boat of a Million Years

Źródło: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 15 (p. 396)

“Government of the people, by the people, and for the people.’ Yeah, trouble is, the three classes of people aren’t the same.”

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Poul Anderson książka The Boat of a Million Years

Źródło: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 336)

“Well, I’ll try to sketch it out for you, but I’ll have to repeat stuff I’ve told you before.”

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Poul Anderson książka The Boat of a Million Years

“That’s all right. I’m a simon-pure layman. My basic thought habits were formed early in the Iron Age. Where it comes to science, I can use plenty of repetition.”
Źródło: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 331)