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«A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
doomed, frustration, prevented, rumor, skeleton, skeletons, unfounded
«Orgy Porgy, Ford and fun. Kiss the girls and make them one. Girls at one with Boys at peace. Orgy progy gives release.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
at peace, ford, kiss of peace, orgies, orgy, porgy, release
«Ignore death up to the last moment; then, when it can't be ignored any longer, have yourself squirted full of morphia and shuffle off in a coma. Thoroughly sensible, humane and scientific, eh?»
«Facts are ventriloquists dummies. Sitting on a wise man's knee they may be made to utter words of wisdom; elsewhere, they say nothing, or talk nonsense, or indulge in sheer diabolism.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Facts
| Keywords:
diabolism, dummies, dummy, elsewhere, indulge, knee, nonsense, sheer, utter, ventriloquist, ventriloquists
«The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Literature
| Keywords:
device, essay, Essays, literary, literary device
«Most of one's life is one prolonged effort to prevent oneself thinking.»
«Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare it is simply disgraceful.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
animal, baboon, baboons, belong to, claiming, cowed, cows, disgraceful, Shakespeare, single-mindedness, species, very well
«A child-like man is not a man whose development has been arrested; on the contrary, he is a man who has given himself a chance of continuing to develop long after most adults have muffled themselves in the cocoon of middle-aged habit and convention.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
aged, arrested, arrested development, cocoon, cocoons, continuing, convention, middle-aged, middle-aged man, muffle, muffled, muffling, on the contrary
«The author of the Iliad is either Homer or, if not Homer, somebody else of the same name.»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| Keywords:
homer, Iliad, same name, The Author, The Iliad, the same name
«The horror no less than the charm of real life consists precisely in the recurrent actualization of the inconceivable»
Author: Aldous Huxley
(Critic, Novelist)
| About:
Charm,
Life
| Keywords:
actualization, horror, real life, recurrent
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