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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: 142 citations0 J'aime

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“De quelque façon que vous envisagiez votre rôle dans la vie, tout ce que vous pouvez faire c'est de le jouer aussi bien que possible.”

Barbe-grise, 1964

“Le besoin humain est réellement, profondément, de trouver un sens à la vie.”

À l'est de la vie, 1994

“Les évènement contrôlent tout.”

À l'est de la vie, 1994

“Les gens qui ont été souvent trahis se croient souvent des traîtres.”

Barbe-grise, 1964

“Ce qui occupe le plus de place chez l'homme, c'est la mort.”

, 1958

“Contrairement à la vertu, la violence survit longtemps à ceux qui l'ont manifesté.”

, 1958

Citations sur les souvenirs de Brian Aldiss

“Toute chose doit subir des transformations: et à ce processus que le corps humain doit subir, la mémoire humaine doit aussi se transformer.”

À l'est de la vie, 1994

“Mais il est notoire que la mémoire des anciens est capricieuse. A travers leurs souvenirs, leur lointaine enfance est le jouet d'étranges déformations.”

, 1958

“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

“Quand nous espérons pour les autres, nous sommes invariablement déçus. Nos rêves n'ont juridiction que sur nous-mêmes.”

Barbe-grise, 1964

“Nous sommes tous condamnés à penser et à dire ce que nous avons dit et pensé hier.”

Barbe-grise, 1964

“La vérité n'a jamais libéré personne.”

, 1958

“Il vaut mieux un monde peuplé de monstres qu'un monde mort.”

Barbe-grise, 1964

“L'histoire des nations se précipite comme une rivière, au-delà du contrôle individuel.”

À l'est de la vie, 1994

“Nous avons besoin de nos désastres.”

Barbe-grise, 1964

“Mais où que vous viviez, en quelque lieu, en quelque temps que ce soit, vous ne vous affranchirez pas de la souffrance. Dans l'univers, la vie de chacun est un fastidieux et pénible voyage.”

Brian Aldiss livre Croisière sans escale

Croisière sans escale, 1958

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

À l'est de la vie, 1994

“Tâche toujours à te réaliser pour t'affranchir de tout conflit interne.”

, 1958

“Un désir malfaisant qu'on refoule se multiplie et dévore l'esprit dans lequel il a germé.”

, 1958

“Qui parmi nous est réellement libre?”

À l'est de la vie, 1994

“Mais ce que croient les autres gens, et leurs passions nous paraissent toujours insensés.”

Barbe-grise, 1964

“Mais l'instinct ne va pas toujours de pair avec l'intelligence.”

, 1958

“La science explique peut-être les propriétés physiques de la lumière du jour. Personne ne peut expliquer le miracle qu'elle est.”

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

“Keep violence in the mind where it belongs.”

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Barefoot in the Head (1969)

“If we can see our difficulties, there is a way of resolving them, or the hope of a way.”

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The Glass Forest (1986)

“Insane? To disobey a law of the universe was impossible, not insane.”

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“Man in His Time” p. 201 (originally published in Science Fantasy, April 1965)
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“Most of my poetry lies beyond the SF field, yet here I am corralled into 'SF poetry' as part of this poetry weekend. Of course, some might say, 'you've made your own bed — now you must lie in it!' But, while fully accepting that dictum, I'm not yet quite prepared to lie down…”

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As quoted in web article "The Brian Aldiss Connection" http://www.zone-sf.com/brianaldiss.html, The Zone

“They came, by what means he did not know, from outside, the vast abstraction that none of them had ever seen. He had a mental picture of a starry void in which men and monsters swam or battled, and then swiftly erased it. Such ideas did not conform with the quiet behavior of his companions; if they never spoke about outside, did they think about it?”

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Brian W. Aldiss livre Outside

Outside (1955)

“Did the others here feel the disquiet he felt? Had they a reason for concealing that disquiet? And another question:
Where was "here"?
He shut that one down sharply.
Deal with one thing at a time. Grope your way gently to the abyss. Categorize your knowledge.”

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Brian W. Aldiss livre Outside

Outside (1955)

“You know that if you had been in charge of creation you would have found some medium less heart-breaking than Time to stage it in.”

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“Poor Little Warrior!” p. 79
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“I'm lucky that SFWA has such a short memory. I was always the Young Turk, the gadfly. Part of the New Wave, although I didn't fit in there either! I spent years, and two histories, putting the so-called Old Guard in their place, and now I'm one of them!”

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Locus interview (2000)

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

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Brian W. Aldiss livre Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 6 “London” (p. 170)

“Full of years, Sir Frank's body died. The diphtheria which carried him off caused him as much suffering as it would have done an ordinary man; dying was not eased by his unique gift. He slid out into the long darkness — but his consciousness continued unabated in eight other bodies.”

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Let's Be Frank (1957)

“All the time, he hoped they would understand that his arrogance masked only shyness—or did he hope that it was his shyness which masked arrogance? He did not know.
Who could presume to know? The one quality holds much of the other. Both refuse to come forward and share.”

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“A Kind of Artistry” p. 185
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“Many Franks of the sixteenth generation were killed in the muck of the trenches, he died not once but many times, developing an obsessive dread of war which never left him.
By the time the Americans entered the war, he was turning his many thoughts to politics.”

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Let's Be Frank (1957)

“All of which pointed to a moral that they should have learned long before, Arthur thought: Never trust a bunch of lousy politicians to do your thinking for you.”

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Brian W. Aldiss livre Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 6 (p. 171)

“One afternoon in early January, the weather showed a lack of character. There was no frost nor wind: the trees in the garden did not stir.”

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Report On Probability A (1968)

“A later generation could have explained the miracle to Sir Frank — though explaining in terms he would not have understood. Though he knew well enough the theory of family traits and likenesses, it would have been impossible then to make him comprehend the intricacy of a chromosome which carries inside it — not merely the stereotypes of parental hair or temperament — but the secret knowledge of how to breathe, how to work the muscles to move the bones, how to grow, how to remember, how to commence the processes of thought … all the infinite number of secret "how to's" that have to be passed on for life to stay above jelly level.
A freak chromosome in Sir Frank ensured he passed on, together with these usual secrets, the secret of his individual consciousness.”

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Let's Be Frank (1957)

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

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Brian W. Aldiss livre Hothouse

Source: Hothouse (1962), Chapter 5

“There was a time, two or three centuries ago, when it looked as if the intellect might win over the body, and our species become something worthwhile. But too much procreation killed that illusion.”

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“Man on Bridge” p. 92
Short fiction, Who Can Replace a Man? (1965)

“Jagger had gone through there. Harley also went through. Somewhere he did not know, somewhere whose existence he had not guessed.… Somewhere that wasn't the house.…”

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Brian W. Aldiss livre Outside

Outside (1955)

““The intelligent have been overwhelmed by the dull. Is that not an invasion?”
“More, I would say, of a self-betrayal.””

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“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.””

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Brian W. Aldiss livre Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 149)

“As Flitch dryly remarked when Greybeard commented on the graveyard, “Ah, they keep a-planting of ’em, but there ain’t any more of ’em growing up.””

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Brian W. Aldiss livre Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 148)

“There has always been a belief in miracles in the popular mind. As L. Sprague de Camp once said, the public would rather be bunked than debunked.”

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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

“All of which makes one feel that the centuries of science upon which our western culture is based have travelled unmarked through the popular mind. A surprising number of people are willing to junk the entire accumulation of knowledge since Ancient Greece after watching Uri Geller perform for five minutes on their twenty-three inch screen.”

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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

“Aldiss’s second law of thermo-linguistics states that what is most popular is rarely best and that what is best is rarely most popular.”

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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.”

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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.”

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Brian W. Aldiss livre Outside

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)

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