“I am finished with running. Now I will stop and choose my way.
Sooner or later a man has to stop and choose his way, not out of the ways he would like there to be, or the ways there ought to be, but out of the ways there are.”

— Leigh Brackett , book The Long Tomorrow

Source: The Long Tomorrow (1955), Chapter 29

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American novelist and screenwriter 1915–1978

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