# Quote — Algis Budrys, The Unexpected Dimension

> Once he’d been in his twenties, looking forward. Now he was a shade past fifty, and what he looked back on was subtly less satisfactory than what he had looked forward to.

- Author: [Algis Budrys](https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys.md)
- Book: [The Unexpected Dimension](https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys/the-unexpected-dimension.md)
- Page: 122
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Algis_Budrys#The_Unexpected_Dimension_(1960)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys/the-unexpected-dimension/once-hed-been

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> It hadn’t had to take the form of this terrible bubble. It might as easily have been a sudden sharp burst behind his eyes or a slower, subtler gnawing at his vitals. But he’d known it was coming, as every man knows and tries to forget it is coming.

p. 64 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/algis-budrys/the-unexpected-dimension/it-hadnt-had.md)

> There are various uses for time, and I have better ones than this.

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> Amnesia was the price of immortality.

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