Brian Aldiss Quotes
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I don't know if I can prepare for what's to come because I don't know what will.
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The sense of jubilee for music and what we're making is always genuine.
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I consider the many years I produced 'Frontline' documentaries as the essential building blocks of my success.
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Signing up for 'It Follows,' I didn't have any idea it was going to turn out the way it did, but seeing it, the music and the feel of it definitely was pretty amazing, getting that kind of throwback feel to classic horror movies.
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Someone asked me if I was afraid to write my memoirs. I told him: 'We have to stop drawing up accounts of fear! We live in a society in which people are allowed to tell their story, and that is what I do.'
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A thick head can do as much damage as a hard heart.
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The Synod of Bishops has existed for forty years. In that long span of time it has been for all of us a good school for introducing us to the universal dimension of the Church.
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The only way to get love is to be lovable. It's very irritating if you have a lot of money. You'd like to think you could write a check: 'I'll buy a million dollars' worth of love.' But it doesn't work that way. The more you give love away, the more you get.
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I think that anybody coming out and saying, 'This is who I am, and let me show it to you...' is good for the world.
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Honest good humor is the oil and wine of a merry meeting, and there is no jovial companionship equal to that where the jokes are rather small and laughter abundant.
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Ther's still a few honest folks left but they never seem t' find anything you lose.
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I have never been over concerned or obsessed with opinion polls or popularity polls. I think a leader who is, is a weak leader. Between being loved and being feared, I have always believed Machiavelli was right. If nobody is afraid of me, I’m meaningless.
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Existence is illusory and it is eternal.
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Gentlemen, the Tory party, unless it is a national party, is nothing.
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The dreamer must contaminate the others by his dream, he must make them fall into it
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I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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It's great to go on your own and discover new things just for yourself, to meet new people and all that. If you're all on your own, then there is nobody there to guide you and you have to make all the decisions for yourself. It's quite liberating in a way.
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Thee at the ferry Oxford riders blithe, Returning home on summer-nights, have met Crossing the stripling Thames at Bab-lock-hithe, Trailing in the cool stream thy fingers wet, As the punt’s rope chops round.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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I think probably honesty is the biggest quality I look for in a relationship. Being exactly who you are with the other person.
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Life's too short not to laugh about yourself and the cards you're dealt.
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Your candor is worth everything to your cause. It is refreshing to find a person with a new theory who frankly confesses that he finds difficulties, insurmountable, at least for the present.
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If adolescence did not exist it would be unnecessary to invent it!
