"Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts."

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Source : 1961 Penguin Science Fiction, introduction.

Brian Aldiss

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“Beautiful things should belong to beautiful souls.”
“My life motto is 'Do my best, so that I can't blame myself for anything.'”
“Such a morning it is when love leans through geranium windows and calls with a cockerel's tongue. When red-haired girls scamper like roses over the rain-green grass, and the sun drips honey.”

Source : 'Day of these Days' (1947)
“If I'm engrossed in a book, I have to rearrange my thoughts before I can mingle with other people, because otherwise they might think I was strange.”
“A lot of religious texts make for good reading. That's why they hold up.”
“A tendency toward the abstract is inherent in linear expression: graphic imagery being confined to outlines has a fairy-like quality and at the same time can achieve great precision.”
“You must take a house beside the Physician. It will be a miracle if ye be the first sick that Christ hath put away uncured.”
“The hardest distance is always from the sofa to the front door”

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