Quotes by Brian Aldiss

Brian Aldiss

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Civilization

Distance

Men

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

Fantasy

Literature

Teenager

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

Letters

People

Unexpected

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

Can Do

Roles

Roles In Life

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.

Components

Identity

Wells

I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.

Morality

Objections

Obsolete

It is at night… that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

Night

Skulls

Sleep

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity – thats a much tougher matter.

Creativity

Stay Strong

Writing

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.

Failing

Goes On

Thinking

Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull. I dont know if anyone has ever pointed out that great attraction of insomnia before, but it is so; the night seems to release a little more of our vast backward inheritance of instincts and feelings; as with the dawn, a little honey is allowed to ooze between the lips of the sandwich, a little of the stuff of dreams to drip into the waking mind.

Dream

Love

Sleep

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Children

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Definitions

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Failing

Fantasy

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Fit

Fun

Future Generation

Generations

Ghost Stories

Goes On

Growing

Growth

Here I Am

Hubris

Hundred

Identity

Law

Letters

Literature

Love

Lying

Made

Men

Miles

Morality

Night

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Obsolete

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Quotes by Brian Aldiss

Brian Aldiss

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

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

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

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.

I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.

It is at night… that the mind is most clear, that we are most able to hold all our life in the palm of our skull.

It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity – thats a much tougher matter.

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.

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