Brian Aldiss Short Quotes

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I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

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An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.

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

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Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

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Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

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One of the characteristics of age was that all avenues of talk led backward in time.

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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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If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.

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

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Are you a religious man, Joe?
Flitch pulled a face. I leaves that sort of thing to women.

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Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.

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In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.

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

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Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

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Let's have a toast—to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!

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It [i. e., his look] held the fatal mixture of stupidity and cunning that lurks at the bottom of all evil.

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The bombs were only
In his head
On his memorial tree
A joker wrote
KEEP VIOLENCE IN THE MIND
WHERE IT BELONGS

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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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What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

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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.

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One afternoon in early January, the weather showed a lack of character. There was no frost nor wind: the trees in the garden did not stir.

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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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As Flitch dryly remarked when Greybeard commented on the graveyard, Ah, they keep a-planting of 'em, but there ain't any more of 'em growing up.

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Digging deep in a Martian desert
men discovered an enormous brain.
It suddenly started to think at them —
So they covered it up again...

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"You and I are real, Teddy, aren't we?"
The bear's eyes regarded the boy unflinchingly. "You and I are real, David." It specialized in comfort.

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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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All of which pointed to a moral that they should have learned long before, Arthur thought: Never trust a bunch of lousy politicians to do your thinking for you.

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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.

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The midwife bustled out to the four in the antechamber and announced that the Almighty (who had recently become a Protestant) had seen fit to bless milady with a son.

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