Brian Aldiss Quotes & Sayings
Enjoy the top 35 famous quotes, sayings and quotations by Brian Aldiss.
Famous Quotes By Brian Aldiss
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However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can. — Brian Aldiss
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What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general? — Brian Aldiss
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All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in which to chart it all ... Ah, well, that's not a fruitful thing to wish, is it? — Brian Aldiss
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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating one's own creativity - that's a much tougher matter. — Brian Aldiss
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If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now. — Brian Aldiss
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I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity. — Brian Aldiss
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Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system. — Brian Aldiss
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It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us. — Brian Aldiss
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Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth. — Brian Aldiss
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We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind ... the underworld of the century's imaginings. — Brian Aldiss
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When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations. — Brian Aldiss
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Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction - it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass. — Brian Aldiss
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Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him! — Brian Aldiss
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Science fiction is the search for a definition of mankind and his status in the universe which will stand in our advanced but confused state of knowledge (science), and is characteristically cast in the Gothic or post Gothic mode. — Brian Aldiss
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To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important. — Brian Aldiss
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Fantasy is literature for teenagers. — Brian Aldiss
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Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind. — Brian Aldiss
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That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to ... grapple with the unfamiliar. — Brian Aldiss
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The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period. — Brian Aldiss
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The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness. — Brian Aldiss
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That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay. — Brian Aldiss
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Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have! — Brian Aldiss
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I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be. — Brian Aldiss
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When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it. — Brian Aldiss
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My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.' — Brian Aldiss
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Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume. — Brian Aldiss
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Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down ... — Brian Aldiss
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The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition. — Brian Aldiss
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I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer. — Brian Aldiss
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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem. — Brian Aldiss
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Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places. — Brian Aldiss
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Keep violence in the mind where it belongs. — Brian Aldiss
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I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth. — Brian Aldiss