"The single definition of government I've ever seen……" — Poul Anderson
"The single definition of government I've ever seen that makes sense is that it's the organization which claims the right to kill people who won't do what it wants."
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24 Quotes by Poul Anderson
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He had seen too much of the cosmos to have any great faith in man's ability to understand it.
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Will none wipe the sneer of the face of the cosmos?
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I think the first duty of all art, including fiction of any kind, is to entertain. That is to say,…
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The fish that first ventured ashore had considerable practical problems.
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A fanatic is a man who, when he's lost sight of his purpose, redoubles his effort.
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Two lives met across death and centuries. To ask what it meant is meaningless. There is no destiny. But sometimes…
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So much American science fiction is parochial -- not as true now as it was years ago, but the assumption…
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Heaven is not as narrowly literal-minded as hell.
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Happier are all men than the dwellers in Faerie – or the gods, for that matter…Better a life like a…
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I wrote the first book, Harvest of Stars, and as I was writing it, I saw that certain implications had…
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Better a life like a falling star, brief bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals,…
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What five books would I like to be remembered for? Well... Tau Zero, I like that one especially. It was…
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