Book Quote by Aldous Huxley Download Open image “In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is very high; in reality, very low.” — Aldous Huxley ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Book Books Books Proportion Commonplace Commonplace People Exceptional Exceptional Commonplace Lows People Proportion Proportion Exceptional Reality Writing
“That was the chief difference between literature and life. In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary. — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
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Ordinary people are capable of doing extraordinary things, and that's what it's all about. They must count. — Studs Terkel Copy Share Image
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We often don’t realize that the extraordinary is to be found in the lives of ordinary people. — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
I guess you have to be on the edge of the normal human condition to be exceptional. — Edd China Copy Share Image
Most people can do extraordinary things if they have the confidence or take the risks. Yet most people — Phillip Adams 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
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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
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If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Young men, especially in America, write to me and ask me to recommend “a course of reading.” Distrust a course of reading! People who… — Andrew Lang Copy Share Image
I have many who keep me going, I am very fortunate in this sense. There is nothing like a child who knows more about… — Floyd Cooper Copy Share Image
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I don't think I have made as much of my life as I should have. I should have written more books. — Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr Copy Share Image
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The purpose of this book is to supply, in the form suitable for laymen, guidance in the adoption and execution of an investment policy. — Benjamin Graham Copy Share Image