"What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s……" — Aldous Huxley
"What a gulf between impression and expression! That’s our ironic fate—to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse—touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash."
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Aldous Huxley
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533 Quotes by Aldous Huxley
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Can we unite against ourselves for our own higher interest?
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To make this trivial world sublime, take half a gram of phanerothyme.
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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.
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