“She seldom bothered taking revenge. Time did that for her, eventually.”

— Poul Anderson , book The Boat of a Million Years

Source: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 15 “Coming Together”, Section 2 (p. 281)

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American science fiction and fantasy writer 1926–2001

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