# Quote — Brian Aldiss, Hothouse

> To be a standard shape is not all in life. To know is also important.

- Author: [Brian Aldiss](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brian-aldiss.md)
- Book: [Hothouse](https://www.leafyquotes.com/brian-aldiss/hothouse.md)
- Source: [Wikiquote](https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Brian_Aldiss#Hothouse_(1962)) ([CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/))
- Quote page: https://www.leafyquotes.com/brian-aldiss/hothouse/to-be-a-standard

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> Obeying an inalienable law, things grew, growing riotous and strange in their impulse for growth.

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> In the extraordinary ancestral compost heap of your unconscious mind, I have burrowed too long.

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> It [i.e., his look] held the fatal mixture of stupidity and cunning that lurks at the bottom of all evil.

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