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)
Brian W. Aldiss livro Greybeard
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.”
Brian W. Aldiss livro Hothouse
Fonte: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 1 (first line)
Brian W. Aldiss livro Outside
Outside (1955)
“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)
“The day of the android has dawned.”
"Are You An Android?", Science Fantasy #34 (April 1959)
“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
Brian W. Aldiss livro Greybeard
Fonte: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 2 “Cowley” (p. 47)
Brian W. Aldiss livro Greybeard
Fonte: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 3 (p. 91)
“Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!”
Brian W. Aldiss livro Hothouse
Fonte: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 18
“One of the characteristics of age was that all avenues of talk led backward in time.”
Brian W. Aldiss livro Greybeard
Fonte: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 1 “The River: Sparcot” (p. 21)
Brian W. Aldiss livro Hothouse
Fonte: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 22
“I’ve no objection to morality, except that it’s obsolete.”
Brian W. Aldiss livro Greybeard
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.”
Brian W. Aldiss livro Greybeard
Fonte: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 7 (p. 203)
Let's Be Frank (1957)
Let's Be Frank (1957)