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.

Brian W. Aldiss


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There are two kinds of writer: those that make you think, and those that make you wonder.

Brian W. Aldiss


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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.

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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 W. Aldiss

Mots clés creativity missing confused afterword foreign native



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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.

Brian W. Aldiss


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Whatever terrific events may inform our lives, it always comes to that in the end; we just want to lie down.

Brian W. Aldiss


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This shall be home, where danger was my cradle, and all we have learned will guard us!

Brian W. Aldiss


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To qualify as a Seeker, it was necessary to show a high serendipity factor. In my experimental behaviour pool as a child, I had exhibited such a factor, and had been selected for special training forthwith. I had taken additional courses in Philosophical, Alpha-humerals, Incidental Tetrachotomy, Apunctual Synchronicity, Homoontogenesis, and other subjects, ultimately qualifying as a Prime Esemplastic Seeker. In other words, I put two and two together in situations where other people were not thinking about addition. I connected. I made wholes greater than parts. Mine was an invaluable profession in a cosmos increasingly full of parts.

Brian W. Aldiss


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Science fiction is for real, space opera is for fun.

Brian W. Aldiss

Mots clés science-fiction space-opera



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Civilisation is the distance that man has placed between himself and his own excreta.

Brian W. Aldiss

Mots clés civilisation cleanliness hygiene excreta



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