Greybeard
A source page for quotes linked to Brian Aldiss.
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Source: The Detached Retina: Aspects of SF and Fantasy
“I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.”
“Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.”
“To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.”
“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”
Source: Greybeard
Source: Greybeard
“Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.”
“I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.”
Source: Greybeard
“The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.”
“However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.”
“I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.”
Source: Helliconia Winter
“My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'”
Source: Frankenstein Unbound
“That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.”
“There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.”
“Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.”
“Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)”
“Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.”
Source: The Brightfount Diaries
“Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.”
“Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.”