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You know that if you had been in charge of creation you would have found some medium less heart-breaking than Time to stage it in.

— Brian Aldiss Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

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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.

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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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A generation which ignores history has no past —and no future.

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From now on, everything in life will appear blurry to me. What’s the point of wiping my glasses when my vision has already left me?"

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You can never plan the future by the past.

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Nothing is there to come, and nothing past,
But an eternal now does always last.

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