You have to have some kind of morality," he said. "Sure. Li… - Poul Anderson

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You have to have some kind of morality," he said.
"Sure. Like you have to have motives for doing anything at all. Still, I think we're beyond that smug sort of code which proclaimed crusades and burned heretics and threw dissenters into concentration camps. We need more personal and less public honor.

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Poul William Anderson (November 25, 1926 – July 31, 2001) was a prominent American science fiction author who wrote during a Golden Age of the genre. Anderson also authored several works of fantasy.

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Birth Name: Poul William Anderson

Alternative Names: Winston P. Sanders • A. A. Craig • Michael Karageorge • Petronius Arbiter Kingsley • P. A. Kingsley

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Light fills the air, wind is aglow, drink of it, breathe of it, make leafing. Rainfall sows itself, it grows down through soil to the secret places where stones abide; it brings the strength of them up rootward. Lie still, molder away, then be again grass.

I seek occasional relief in old books. They help me tell the transient from the enduring.

I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.

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