Poul Anderson: Frases em inglês
“On our Earth, we’ve perforce learned all the knavery there is to know.”
Fonte: The High Crusade (1960), p. 131
Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction (1997)
“Men, whose span is cruelly short, rush nonetheless to death in their youth as to a maiden’s arms.”
Fonte: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 55)
Fonte: Harvest of Stars (1993), Ch. 55
Poul Anderson: Fifty Years of Science Fiction (1997)
“You know what they say about bold spacemen never becoming old spacemen.”
"Garden in the Void" (1952)
Short fiction
“You should pay no heed to what some yokel priest has prated of. What does he know?”
Fonte: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 11 (p. 70)
Fonte: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 16 (p. 176; closing words)
“We live with our archetypes, but can we live in them?”
"The Fatal Fulfillment" (Short Story), March 1970. Originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy and Science Fiction
Short fiction
Ivory, and Apes, and Peacocks (p. 314)
Time Patrol
“Man does not live by bread alone, nor guns, paperwork, theses, naked practicalities.”
Gibraltar Falls (p. 118)
Time Patrol
Variante: Bombing: A method of warfare which delivers high explosives from the air, condemned because of its effects upon women, children, the aged, the sick, and other non-combatants, unless these happen to have resided in Berlin, Hamburg, Dresden, Tokyo, Osaka, etc., though not Hiroshima or Nagasaki. Cf. missile.
Fonte: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 3 (p. 30)
Fonte: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 17 (p. 162)
“I think most human misery is due to well-meaning fanatics like him.”
Time Patrol (p. 42)
Time Patrol
“Too far a retreat from reality is insanity.”
Fonte: Brain Wave (1954), Chapter 10 (p. 82)
Fonte: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 10 (p. 88)
Fonte: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 7 (p. 64)
Fonte: Three Hearts and Three Lions (1961), Chapter 12 (p. 102)