Famous quotes containing the words huxley and/or feared:
“Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.”
—Aldous Huxley (1894–1963)
“Until I feared I would lose it, I never loved to read. One does not love breathing.”
—Harper Lee (b. 1926)