Brian Aldiss - Human Quotes

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The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

Brian Aldiss
I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

Brian Aldiss
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.

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The thing was not discussable, even with a near acquaintance like Calvin because … because of the nature of the thing … because one had to behave like a normal, unworried human being. That at least was sound and clear and gave him comfort: behave like a normal human being.

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That first novel of mine, Non-Stop, is directly attributable to Heinlein. His "Common Sense" seemed to me such a good story, but bereft of any human feelings. I thought long about that story, and then I thought how wonderful it would be to write about a spaceship in which people have been imprisoned for generations and to put in something of the human feeling. So that novel is directly attributable to Heinlein. I thought, in my youthful arrogance, that I could do it better — I didn't! I thought I could do it differently, and I think I did do it differently. And I suppose that on the whole, I've concentrated on doing things differently ever since.

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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.

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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