Brian Aldiss Quotes - Page 2

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• That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to... grapple with the unfamiliar.

  Brian Aldiss

  Artist, Roles, Break

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• When you are young, you enjoy a sustained illusion that sooner or later something marvelous is going to happen, that you are going to transcend your parents' limitations.

  Brian Aldiss

  Parent, Illusion, Young

  Brian Wilson Aldiss (1985). “Helliconia Winter”, Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers

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

  Brian Aldiss

  People, Political, Belief

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

  Brian Aldiss

  People, Letters, Unexpected

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

  Brian Aldiss

  Animal, Hundred, Miles

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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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.

  Brian Aldiss

  People, Lasts, Century

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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• The feat represents immense achievement for the neotenic ape, species Homo sapiens. But behind this lie twooldattributesoftheapetribalismandinquisitiveness.

  Brian Aldiss

  Lying, Achievement, Apes

  1969 On space flight, in The Guardian.

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• I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

  Brian Aldiss

  Wealth, Should, Wretched

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• I am a writer and always was; being a writer is an integral part of my identity. Being published, being well regarded, is a component of that identity.

  Brian Aldiss

  Identity, Wells, Components

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

  Brian Aldiss

  Men, World, Made

  "Hothouse". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1962.

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

  Brian Aldiss

  Law, Growth, Growing

  "Hothouse". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1962.

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• I can't help believing that these things that come from the subconscious mind have a sort of truth to them. It may not be a scientific truth, but it's psychological truth.

  Brian Aldiss

  Believe, Mind, May

  "Brian Aldiss : Young Turk to Grand Master". Locus Magazine, www.locusmag.com. August 2000.

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• Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed - now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down.

  Brian Aldiss

  Lying, Weekend, Here I Am

  "A Report On Probability AI: The Brian Aldiss Connection". Interview with Andrew Darlington, www.zone-sf.com.

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• A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers (without lowering standards)?

  Brian Aldiss

  Writing, Should, More Money

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• The misfortune of a young man who returns to his native land after years away is that he finds his native land foreign; whereas the lands he left behind remain for ever like a mirage in his mind. However, misfortune can itself sow seeds of creativity. ---- Afterword to "Hothouse" Brian Aldiss

  Brian Aldiss

  Creativity, Men, Years

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• Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and loose timbers to protect a house against flood. Writers are vulnerable creatures like anyone else. For what do they have in reality? Not sandbags, not timbers. Just a flimsy reputation and a name.

  Brian Aldiss

  Writing, Pride, Reality

  "Bury My Heart at W. H. Smith's". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1990.

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• Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

  Brian Aldiss

  Teenager, Literature, Fantasy

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• We belong to an age where apocalypse is our daily bread, coffee's black, and we know we're part of the abyss. Red Spider White Web is right on target in conveying that understanding. It splinters in the mind... the underworld of the century's imaginings.

  Brian Aldiss

  Coffee, White, Understanding

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• The prose poem Walk The Red Road is great stuff and deserves to be read aloud. It compares quite favorably to The Walls Of Emerald by Li Chiang Yen, a Chinese poet of the late Tang period.

  Brian Aldiss

  Wall, Chinese, Emeralds

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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.

  Brian Aldiss

  Thinking, Goes On, Failing

  Brian Aldiss (2011). “Greybeard”, p.31, Hachette UK

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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?

  Brian Aldiss

  Animal, Wish, Habitat

  "Greybeard". Book by Brian Aldiss, 1964.

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