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Brian Wilson Aldiss, né le 18 août 1925 à Dereham dans le Norfolk en Angleterre, est un écrivain britannique de science-fiction, d'essais et de littérature générale. Il a été décoré de l'ordre de l'Empire britannique en 2005 pour services rendus à la littérature.

✵ 18. août 1925 – 19. août 2017
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Brian Aldiss citations célèbres

“Les évènement contrôlent tout.”

À l'est de la vie, 1994

Citations sur les souvenirs de Brian Aldiss

“Voler la mémoire, c'est une forme de meurtre.”

À l'est de la vie, 1994

Brian Aldiss Citations

“À esprits simples, ruses simples.”

À l'est de la vie, 1994

“L'imagination est toujours avide, elle en veut toujours davantage.”

À l'est de la vie, 1994

“Nous avons besoin de nos désastres.”

Barbe-grise, 1964

“L'injustice fait partie de la loi naturelle.”

À l'est de la vie, 1994

“Qui parmi nous est réellement libre?”

À l'est de la vie, 1994

“Plus on vieillit, plus on a besoin de ses amis.”

Barbe-grise, 1964

Brian Aldiss: Citations en anglais

“Carnage added to carnage does not equal peace.”

“Basis for Negotiations” p. 152
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“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)

“Why don’t you go somewhere quietly and consult your history books if you have no consciences to consult?”

“Basis for Negotiations” p. 122
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“Relax, enjoy yourself. Have another drink. It’s patriotic to overconsume.”

Brian W. Aldiss livre Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 (p. 121)

“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."

“Most SF is about madness, or what is currently ruled to be madness; this is part of its attraction — it's always playing with how much the human mind can encompass.”

"In Conversation: Brian Aldiss & James Blish" in Cypher (October 1973); republished in The Tale That Wags the God (1987) by James Blish

“The ability to change should not be despised.”

“Basis for Negotiations” p. 139
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

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

Brian W. Aldiss livre Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 4 “Washington” (p. 110)

“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)

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

Brian W. Aldiss livre Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 7 “The River: The End” (p. 190)

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