“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.”

—  Brian W. Aldiss , book Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 2 “Cowley” (p. 47)

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British science fiction author 1925–2017

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