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Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and hi

Civilization is the distance man has placed between himself and his excreta. – Brian Aldiss

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Science fiction is no more written for scientists that ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian Aldiss

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When childhood dies, its corpses are called adults and they enter society, one of the politer names of hell. That is why we dread children, even if we love them, they show us the state of our decay. – Brian Aldiss

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Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stories are written for ghosts. – Brian Aldiss

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The path of civilization is paved with tin cans. – Elbert Hubbard

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Every civilization is, among other things, an arrangement for domesticating the passions and setting them to do useful work. – Aldous Huxley

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Is man’s civilization only a wrappage, through which the savage nature of him can still burst, infernal as ever? – Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution, vol III, book V, chapter 7

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We never really grow up, we only learn how to act in public. – Bryan White

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