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
“Insane? To disobey a law of the universe was impossible, not insane.”
“Man in His Time” p. 201 (originally published in Science Fantasy, April 1965)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
As quoted in web article "The Brian Aldiss Connection" http://www.zone-sf.com/brianaldiss.html, The Zone
“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 79
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Locus interview (2000)
“The shuffle only demonstrated people’s fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.”
Fonte: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 6 “London” (p. 170)
Let's Be Frank (1957)
“A Kind of Artistry” p. 185
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
Let's Be Frank (1957)
Let's Be Frank (1957)
“To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.”
Fonte: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 5
“Man on Bridge” p. 92
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
“Man on Bridge” p. 83 (originally published in New Writings in SF 1, 1964)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)
““Are you a religious man, Joe?”
Flitch pulled a face. “I leaves that sort of thing to women.””
Fonte: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 149)
Science Fiction on the Titanic, in Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison (eds.) The Year's Best SF 9 (1976), ISBN 0-8600-7894-9, p. 205
Science Fiction on the Titanic, in Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison (eds.) The Year's Best SF 9 (1976), ISBN 0-8600-7894-9, p. 203
Science Fiction on the Titanic, in Brian Aldiss and Harry Harrison (eds.) The Year's Best SF 9 (1976), ISBN 0-8600-7894-9, p. 201
“The greatest human achievement is to fulfil one’s destiny.”
Originally published in New Worlds Science Fiction, August 1965; reprinted in Michael Moorcock (ed.) Best SF Stories from New Worlds 4, p. 83
Short fiction, The Source (1965)
“There's a way outside. We're — we've got to find out what we are.”
His voice rose to an hysterical pitch. He was shaking Calvin again. "We must find out what's wrong here. Either we are victims of some ghastly experiment — or we're all monsters!"
Outside (1955)