“Disappointed in his hope that I would give him the fictional equivalent of “One Hundred Ways of Cooking Eggs” or the “Carnet… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly -- they’ll go through anything. You read and you’re pierced. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“No, give me the past. It doesn’t change; it’s all there in black and white, and you can get to know about… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
After all, what is reading but a vice, like drink or venery or any other form of excessive self-indulgence? One reads to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment and because books were… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“With me, travelling is frankly a vice. The temptation to indulge in it is one which I find almost as hard to… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Assemble a mob of men and women previously conditioned by a daily reading of the newspapers; treat them to amplified band music,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“During his long career as an agitator, Hitler had studied the effects of herd-poison and had learned how to exploit them for… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
... I had to depend on Braille for my reading and guide for my walking...I am now wearing no glasses, reading and… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Unorthodoxy threatens more than the life of a mere individual; it strikes at Society itself.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Man has an almost infinite capacity for taking things and people for granted and thereby missing out on the pleasure of being grateful that… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Of course the Dharma-body of the Buddha was the hedge at the bottom of the garden. At the same time, and no less obviously,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“The question for the man of sense is: Do we or do we not want to go to hell? And his answer is: No,… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Thought of the incomprehensible sequence of changes and chances that make up a life, all the beauties and horrors and absurdities whose conjunctions create… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The third petition of the Lord's Prayer is repeated daily by millions who have not the slightest intention of letting anyone's will be done… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Then what’s time for?” asked Lenina in some astonishment. Apparently, for going on walks in the Lake District; for that was what he now… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
All right then," said the Savage defiantly, "I'm claiming the right to be unhappy. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
