Keith Laumer

Quotes

1. There’s nothing like a little slavery to make a man appreciate even a modest portion of freedom.

   p. 166

2. 

   I was still alive, but that was a mere detail, subject to change. (p. 13)

3. 

   The last burst picked me up and threw me a thousand miles into an open grave and the mud showered down on me and a giant tombstone fell out of the sky to mark the place, but I didn’t care any more, because I was far away, in that place where the heroes and the cowards lie together with a fine impartiality, waiting for eternity to pass, slowly, like a procession of snails creeping across an endless desert toward a distant line of mountains. (p. 18)

4. 

   Adventure has been defined as somebody else having a difficult time, a long way away. (p. 17)

5. 

   “You’re talking to yourself.”

   “It’s all right. I’m not listening.” (p. 78)

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