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
“In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.”
Fonte: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 23
“Exactly.”
“Man on Bridge” p. 89
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Man on Bridge” p. 89
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Carnage added to carnage does not equal peace.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 152
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
"In Conversation: Brian Aldiss & James Blish" in Cypher (October 1973)
“Man on Bridge” p. 88
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Locus interview (2000)
“Why should you be confused just because you come from a confused civilization?”
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 78 (originally published in The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction, April 1958)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Man in His Time” p. 209
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Let's Be Frank (1957)
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 122
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.”
Fonte: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 121)
"The Deceptive Truth", The Dark Sun Rises (2002)
“Old Hundredth” p. 162
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.”
The Twinkling of an Eye: My Life as an Englishman (1998) Unsourced variant: "Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system."
"In Conversation: Brian Aldiss & James Blish" in Cypher (October 1973); republished in The Tale That Wags the God (1987) by James Blish
Let's Be Frank (1957)
“The ability to change should not be despised.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 139
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Man on Bridge” pp. 90-91
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“It’s the duty of men in office not to be misled.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 140
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“I kill from conviction, not to pass a personality quiz.”
“Basis for Negotiations” p. 143
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.”
"Apéritif" in Bury My Heart at W.H. Smith's (1990)