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Aldous Huxley Quotes

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English Novelist, Writer July 26, 1894 – November 22, 1963

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The place is good. How good, one must have circumnavigated the globe to discover. Why not stay? Take root? But roots are chains. I have a terror of losing my freedom. Free, without ties, unpossessed by any possessions, free to do as one will, to go at a moment's notice wherever the fancy may suggest--it is good. But so is this place. Might it not be better? To gain freedom one sacrifices something [...] and all that these things and people signify. One sacrifices something--for a greater gain... Aldous Huxley
Don't try to behave as though you were essentially sane and naturally good. We're all demented sinners in the same cosmic boat - and the boat is perpetually sinking. Aldous Huxley
I know quite well that one needs ridiculous, mad situations like that; one can't write really well about anything else. Why was that old fellow such a marvelous propaganda technician? Because he had so many insane, excruciating things to get excited about. You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. Aldous Huxley
Oh, how desperately bored, in spite of their grim determination to have a Good Time, the majority of pleasure-seekers really are! Aldous Huxley
O wonder!' he was saying; and his eyes shone, his face was brightly flushed. 'How many goodly creatures are there here! How beauteous mankind is! ... O brave new world! O brave new world that has such people in it. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of..."
You've got to be hurt and upset; otherwise you can't think of the really good, penetrating, X-rayish phrases. Aldous Huxley
Fortunately, however, birds don't understand pep talks. Not even St. Francis'. Just imagine," he went on, "preaching sermons to perfectly good thrushes and goldfinches and chiff-chaffs! What presumption! Why couldn't he have kept his mouth shut and let the birds preach to him? Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it..."
A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work."
Like every man of sense and good feeling, I abominate work. Aldous Huxley
Our epoch has been give many nicknames--the Age of Anxiety, the Atomic Age, the Space Age. It might, with equally good reason, be called the Age of Television Addiction, the Age of Soap Opera, the Age of the Disk Jockey. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in..."
Everyone who wants to do good to the human race always ends in universal bullying. Aldous Huxley
Like every other good thing in this world, leisure and culture have to be paid for. Fortunately, however, it is not the leisured and the cultured who have to pay. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and..."
Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions, it is walled and roofed with them. Aldous Huxley
Aldous Huxley quote: "It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels."
It's with bad sentiments that one makes good novels. Aldous Huxley

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