# Quote — Damon Knight, A for Anything

> Eagles had made a realist of him. He believed in facts, and in altering your viewpoint to fit them, no matter what they were. That was the way you survived and stayed sane; it was hard, it meant sacrifices—he had already lost many things that he valued deeply—but it was the only way.

- Author: [Damon Knight](https://www.leafyquotes.com/damon-knight.md)
- Book: [A for Anything](https://www.leafyquotes.com/damon-knight/a-for-anything.md)
- Page: 186
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Damon_Knight#A_for_Anything_(1959)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/damon-knight/a-for-anything/eagles-had-made

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> He was going to die. His mind flinched back in horror from that, but it was still there, grinning, implacable. His body would rot under the ground, while delicious things were still happening in the sunlight.

p. 66 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/damon-knight/a-for-anything/he-was-going.md)

> “Don’t lose your temper,” said Ruell evenly. “It’s your worst fault, except for ignorance.”

p. 88 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/damon-knight/a-for-anything/dont-lose-your.md)

> No progress, either moral or material, can be made in a world which is frozen, like ours, into a rigid mold of suppression of liberties.

p. 120 — [Quote page](https://www.leafyquotes.com/damon-knight/a-for-anything/no-progress-either.md)