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Happiness was simply something that occurred in a well-regulated life.

— Brian Aldiss

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Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Barefoot in the Head (1969)

Only a madman would claim that there is some thing unreal about reality.

Aboard the Beatitude (2002)

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

Greybeard (1964)

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

Penguin Science Fiction (1961)

Poor little warrior, science will never invent anything to assist the titanic death you want in the contra-terrene caverns of your fee-fi-fo-fumblingly fearful id!

Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

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The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

The key to self-generated happiness (the only reliable kind) is the refusal to take oneself too seriously.

Tom Robbins High Times interview (2002)

It is the law of life that if you are kind to someone you feel happy. If you are cruel you are unhappy. And if you hurt someone, you will be hurt back.

Cary Grant Love – That’s All Cary Grant Ever Thinks About (1964)

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy.

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