Robert Aickman Quotes

• When you live entirely among madmen, it is difficult to know how sane you are.

  Robert Aickman

  Difficult, Madmen, Sane

  Robert Aickman (2001). “The collected strange stories”

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• It is strange that people train themselves so carefully to go to waste so prematurely

  Robert Aickman

  People, Waste, Strange

  Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.16, Faber & Faber

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• The first step towards mastering time is always to make time meaningless

  Robert Aickman

  Firsts, Steps, Making Time

  Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.204, Faber & Faber

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• In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was an evolutionary development, destined to supersede man as the dominant species and reduce him to greenfly status, the status of machine-minder, homo mechanicus instead of homo sapiens; and to modify his nature accordingly.

  Robert Aickman

  Men, World, Machines

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• Everything to do with time is hideous.

  Robert Aickman

  Hideous

  Robert Aickman (2014). “Cold Hand in Mine”, p.203, Faber & Faber

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• After all, that was a main purpose of science: to make things of all kinds happen sooner than they otherwise would.

  Robert Aickman

  Purpose, Kind, All Kinds

  Robert Aickman (2014). “The Unsettled Dust”, p.201, Faber & Faber

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