“Tomorrow would be better. Tomorrow was always better, for someone. The difficult task lay in ensuring that the someone was one of yours.”

—  Algis Budrys

Source: Some Will Not Die (1961), Chapter 3 (p. 51)

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American writer 1931–2008

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