Brian Aldiss Quotes
1925–2017 England
Brian Wilson Aldiss (August 18, 1925 – August 19, 2017) was an English writer of general fiction and science fiction.
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Also known as: Aldiss, Brian, Aldiss, Brian Wilson
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Only a madman would claim that there is some thing unreal about reality.
The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.
There is only the pattern; the pattern is all the universe, creator and created.
If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.
In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.
You are like all cruel men, sentimental; you are like all sentimental men; squeamish.
However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.
The greatest human achievement is to fulfil one’s destiny.
Never, never let action become a substitute for thought.
It’s the duty of men in office not to be misled.
An overcrowded world is the ideal place in which to be lonely.
Let’s have a toast—to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!
Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.
Attribution
Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Brian Aldiss (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.