Frases célebres de Poul Anderson
Poul Anderson: Frases en inglés
“Her rank was higher than his, so high that no one in her family worked productively.”
Fuente: The Enemy Stars (1959), Chapter 1 (p. 4)
In the first edition of the book, this quote reads: Better a life like a falling star, brief and bright across the dark, than the long, long waiting of the immortals, loveless and cheerlessly wise.
Fuente: The Broken Sword (1954), Chapter 28 (p. 206)
Death and the Knight (p. 752)
Time Patrol
“Silence fell. The clock on my mantel ticked aloud and the wind outside flowed past like a river.”
Fuente: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 16 (p. 175)
“A cultured, sensitive, observant man is a pleasure to be with in any age.”
Fuente: There Will Be Time (1972), Chapter 9 (p. 97)
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 19 “Thule”, Section 32 (p. 517)
“What’s the point of our living all these centuries if we haven’t grown up even a little?”
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 19 “Thule”, Section 27 (p. 482)
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 19 “Thule”, Section 18 (p. 449)
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 19 “Thule”, Section 14 (p. 441)
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 15 (p. 396)
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 336)
“Well, I’ll try to sketch it out for you, but I’ll have to repeat stuff I’ve told you before.”
“That’s all right. I’m a simon-pure layman. My basic thought habits were formed early in the Iron Age. Where it comes to science, I can use plenty of repetition.”
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 331)
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 330)
“No amount of money would stave off a nuclear warhead.”
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 328)
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 18 “Judgment Day”, Section 3 (p. 327)
“Well, everybody got stupid now and then, especially in war.”
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 17 “Steel” (p. 306)
“I seek occasional relief in old books. They help me tell the transient from the enduring.”
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 16 “Niche” (p. 291)
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 16 “Niche” (p. 291)
“She seldom bothered taking revenge. Time did that for her, eventually.”
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 15 “Coming Together”, Section 2 (p. 281)
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 12 “The Last Medicine” (p. 215)
“Your Eminence is as great a man as I have ever met.”
“Then God have mercy on humankind,” Richelieu replied.
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 11 “The Kitten and the Cardinal” (p. 207)
Fuente: The Boat of a Million Years (1989), Chapter 11 “The Kitten and the Cardinal” (p. 205)
