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Brian Aldiss quotes: My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

My briefest ever definition of science fiction is 'Hubris clobbered by Nemesis.'

Brian Aldiss quotes: Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It's patriotic to overconsume.

Brian Aldiss quotes: I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

I've no objection to morality, except that it's obsolete.

Brian Aldiss quotes: Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.

Brian Aldiss quotes: Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

Why had I become a writer in the first place? Because I wasn't fit for society; I didn't fit into the system.

Brian Aldiss quotes: Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Feedback is a pleasant thing. I get a lot of letters from unexpected people in unexpected places.

Brian Aldiss quotes: That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to ... grapple with the unfamiliar.

That's the artist's role - to strike out always for something new, to break away, to defy, to ... grapple with the unfamiliar.

Brian Aldiss quotes: That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

That is why we dread children, even if we love them. They show us the state of our decay.

Brian Aldiss quotes: I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

I have had wealth, rank and power, but, if these were all I had, how wretched I should be.

Brian Aldiss quotes: If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

If more people had put their fellow human beings before abstractions last century, we shouldn't be where we are now.

Brian Aldiss quotes: Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

Brian Aldiss quotes: The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

The shuffle only demonstrated people's fatuous belief in a political cure for a human condition.

Brian Aldiss quotes: The day of the android has dawned.

The day of the android has dawned.

Brian Aldiss quotes: When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

When knowledge becomes formulated into a science, then it does take on a life of it's own, often alien to the human spirit that conceived it.

Brian Aldiss quotes: However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

However you envisage your role in life, all you can do is perform it as best you can.

Brian Aldiss quotes: Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Whatever creativity is, it is in part a solution to a problem.

Brian Aldiss quotes: I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

I was hardly fit for human society. Thus destiny shaped me to be a science fiction writer.

Brian Aldiss quotes: Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

Man was an accident on this world or it would have been made better for him!

Brian Aldiss quotes: Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

Fantasy is literature for teenagers.

Brian Aldiss quotes: What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general?

Brian Aldiss quotes: To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

Brian Aldiss quotes: Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!

Let's have a toast-to the future generation of consumers, however many heads or assholes they have!

Brian Aldiss quotes: It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.

It's a national failing to think of politics as something that goes on in Parliament. It isn't; it's something that goes on inside us.