It's 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 don't 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. I wish I believed, as J. B. Priestley did, that consciousness continues after disembodiment or death, not forever, but for a long while. Three score years and ten is such a stingy ration of time, when there is so much time around. Perhaps that's why some of us are insomniacs; night is so precious that it would be pusillanimous to sleep all through it! A "bad night" is not always a bad thing.
Brian Aldiss citado em "The Reader's digest" - Volume 131, página 229, DeWitt Wallace, Lila Bell Acheson Wallace - The Reader's Digest Association, 1987
Brian Aldiss frases e citações
Brian Aldiss: Frases em inglês
“-""Expansion to your ego, friend"".
-""At your expense"".”
Variante: Expansion to your ego, friend.
-At your expense.
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 124
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 80
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“If adolescence did not exist it would be unnecessary to invent it!”
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“The only sort of tasks worth being set were impossible ones.”
“A Kind of Artistry” p. 175 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, October 1962)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Fonte: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 3 “The River: Swifford Fair” (p. 75)
“Who Can Replace a Man?” p. 19 (originally published in Infinity Science Fiction, June 1958)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“You are like all cruel men, sentimental; you are like all sentimental men; squeamish.”
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 80
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.”
Fonte: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 1 (first line)
“At least the mentor’s point was made: loneliness was psychological, not statistical.”
“Old Hundredth” p. 163
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Never, never let action become a substitute for thought.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 121 (originally published in New Worlds Science Fiction #114, January 1962)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts.”
Penguin Science Fiction (1961) Introduction
“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”
Fonte: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 18
“One of the characteristics of age was that all avenues of talk led backward in time.”
Fonte: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 1 “The River: Sparcot” (p. 21)
“I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.”
Fonte: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 122)
“Man on Bridge” p. 87
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.”
Fonte: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 7 (p. 203)
Let's Be Frank (1957)
Let's Be Frank (1957)