"The fatal error of much science fiction has……" — Brian Aldiss
"The fatal error of much science fiction has been to subscribe to an optimism based on the idea that revolution, or a new gimmick, or a bunch of strong men, or an invasion of aliens, or the conquest of other planets, or the annihilation of half the world--in short, pretty nearly anything but the facing up to the integral and irredeemable nature of mankind--can bring about utopian situations. It is the old error of the externalization of evil."
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24 Quotes by Brian Aldiss
Brian Aldiss has 24 quotes on this site.
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults.
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Keep violence in the mind Where it belongs (Barefoot in the Head)
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Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.
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A writer should say to himself, not, How can I get more money?, but How can I reach more readers…
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Its at night, when perhaps we should be dreaming, that the mind is most clear, that we are most able…
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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta.
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Writers must fortify themselves with pride and egotism as best they can. The process is analogous to using sandbags and…
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It is comparatively easy to become a writer; staying a writer, resisting formulaic work, generating ones own creativity - thats…
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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That…
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Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.
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The day of the android has dawned.
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Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into…
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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
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I gave up on new poetry myself 30 years ago when most of it began to read like coded messages…
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Alien - an American sovereign in his probationary state.
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Everyone's quick to blame the alien.
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I don't believe that there are aliens. I believe there are really different people.
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Boarding school didn't feel like my world, I felt like an alien; people there had a lot of money.
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The more you can increase fear of drugs and crime, welfare mothers, immigrants and aliens, the more you control all…
— Noam Chomsky
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There are many Latino writers as talented as I am, but because we are published through small presses, our books…
— Sandra Cisneros
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I feel... sexier, I think, with short hair. I feel like an alien!
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The tabloids, instead of being about alien babies and stuff, it's my triplets, quadruplets, marriages, feuds.
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Wide open and unguarded stand our gates And through them presses a wild motley throng Men from the Volga and…
— Thomas Bailey Aldrich
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The Alien bill proposed in the Senate is a monster that must forever disgrace its parents.
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