Huxley

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“Cynical realism—it’s the intelligent man’s best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“For Jeremy, direct, unmediated experience was always hard to take in, always more or less disquieting. Life became safe, things assumed meaning, only when they had been translated into words and confined between the covers of a book.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)

“A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author’s soul.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)