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Letter "A" » Aldous Huxley Quotes
«The saxophones wailed like melodious cats under the moon.»
«Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
caricatures, criticisms, Parodies, parody, penetrating
«A million million spermatozoa, / All of them alive: / Out of their cataclysm but one poor Noah / Dare hope to survive. / And among that billion minus one / Might have chanced to be / Shakespeare, another Newton, a new Donne -/ But the One was Me.»
«That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane individual has ever given his assent»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Men
| Keywords:
assent, assented, assenting, proposition, sane
«From their experience or from the recorded experience of others (history), men learn only what their passions and their metaphysical prejudices allow them to learn.»
«That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep.»
«People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into Episcopal behinds»
«An intellectual is someone who has found something more interesting to think about than sex»
«Little boys may be an intolerable nuisance; but when they are not there we regret them, we find ourselves homesick for their very intolerableness»
«The investigation of nature is an infinite pasture-ground where all may graze, and where the more bite, the longer the grass grows, the sweeter is its flavor, and the more it nourishes.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
flavor, graze, grazes, grazing, investigation, investigations, nourishes, pasture, sweeter
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