Quote by Brian Aldiss
Science fiction is no more written for scientists than ghost stori

Science fiction is no more written for scientists than 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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Inner Child
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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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Science
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A person terrified with the imagination of spectres, is more reasonable than one who thinks the appearance of spirits fabulous and groundless. – Joseph Addison

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Ghosts

The meagre lighthouse all in white, haunting the seaboard, as if it were the ghost of an edifice that had once had colour and rotundity, dripped melancholy tears after its late buffeting by the waves. – Charles Dickens, Little Dorrit

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Ghosts

If, after I depart this vale, you ever remember me and have thought to please my ghost, forgive some sinner and wink your eye at some homely girl. – H.L. Mencken

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Ghosts

A house is never still in darkness to those who listen intently; there is a whispering in distant chambers, an unearthly hand presses the snib of the window, the latch rises. Ghosts were created when the first man woke in the night. – J.M. Barrie, The Little Minister, 1891

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There are many in this old world of ours who hold that things break about even for all of us. I have observed for example that we all get the same amount of ice. The rich get it in the summertime and the poor get it in the winter. – Bat Masterson

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Let children read whatever they want and then talk about it with them. If parents and kids can talk together, we wont have as much censorship because we wont have as much fear. – Judy Blume

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