Brian Aldiss - Life Quotes

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Synthetic life-forms were less than ten years old, the old android mechanicals less than sixteen; the faults of their systems were still being ironed out, year by year.

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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?

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Many modifications in private and public life took place. Privacy ceasing to exist, all new houses were glass-built, curtains abolished, walls pulled down. Police went, the entire legal structure vanished overnight — a man does not litigate against himself. A parody of Parliament remained, to deal with foreign affairs, but party politics, elections, leaders in newspapers (even newspapers themselves) were scrapped.

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However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

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Sounds to me as if you want journalists, Timberlane said.
No, sir, we require steady men with integrity. This is not a scoop, it's a way of life.

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To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

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The hardship of it was a pleasure. Life was a pleasure; he looked back at its moments, many of them as shrouded in mist as the opposite bank of the Thames. Objectively, many of them held only misery, fear, confusion; but afterward, and even at the time, he had known an exhilaration stronger than the misery, fear, or confusion. A fragment of belief came to him from another epoch: Cogito ergo sum. For him that had not been true; his truth had been: Sentio ergo sum. I feel, so I exist. He enjoyed this fearful, miserable, confused life, and not only because it made more sense than nonlife. He could never explain that to anyone.

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There have been mechanicals on the market with mini-computers for brains — plastic things without life, super-toys — but we have at last found a way to link computer circuitry with synthetic flesh.

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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.

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