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Aldous Huxley Quotes about Literature

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The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

The worst enemy of life, freedom and the common decencies is total anarchy; their second worst enemy is total efficiency.

Worst Enemy, Common Decency, Literature

Aldous Huxley (1956). “Adonis and the alphabet: and other essays”

Every man's memory is his private literature.

Memories, Men, Literature

Proverbs are always platitudes until you have personally experienced the truth of them.

Truth, Literature, Platitudes

Aldous Huxley (1948). “The collected works of Aldous Huxley”

My fate cannot be mastered; it can only be collaborated with and thereby, to some extent, directed. Nor am I the captain of my soul; I am only its noisiest passenger.

Fate, Soul, Literature

Aldous Huxley (2002). “Complete Essays: 1939-1956”, Ivan R Dee

Happiness is a hard master, particularly other people's happiness.

Happiness, People, Literature

Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

Writers write to influence their readers, their preachers, their auditors, but always, at bottom, to be more themselves.

Writing, Individuality, Literature

"Stories, Essays, & Poems".

Perhaps it's good for one to suffer. Can an artist do anything if he's happy? Would he ever want to do anything? What is art, after all, but a protest against the horrible inclemency of life?

Art, Suffering, Literature

Aldous Huxley (1957). “Antic Hay: And The Gioconda Smile”

Habit converts luxurious enjoyments into dull and daily necessities.

Luxury, Literature, Dull

"Point Counter Point". Book by Aldous Huxley. Chapter 17, 1928.

Thought must be divided against itself before it can come to any knowledge of itself.

Ideas, Literature, Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1970). “Collected Works: Do what you will”

Specialized meaninglessness has come to be regarded, in certain circles, as a kind of hallmark of true science.

Science, Circles, Literature

Aldous Huxley (2001). “Complete Essays: 1936-1938”, Ivan R Dee

That all men are equal is a proposition to which, at ordinary times, no sane human being has ever given his assent.

Equality, Men, Literature

Proper Studies (1927) "The Idea of Equality"

The essay is a literary device for saying almost everything about almost anything

Literature, Literary Devices, Devices

Aldous Huxley, Robert S. Baker, James Sexton (2002). “Complete Essays: 1956-1963, and supplement, 1920-1948”, Ivan R. Dee Publisher

The most distressing thing that can happen to a prophet is to be proved wrong. The next most distressing thing is to be proved right.

Next, Literature, Prophet

1956 'Brave New World Revisited', in Esquire.

Words, words, words! They shut one off from the universe. Three quarters of the time one's never in contact with things, only with the beastly words that stand for them.

Literature, Three, Beastly

Aldous Huxley “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley”

The creation by word-power of something out of nothing--what is that but magic? And, may I add, what is that but literature?

Magic, Add, Literature

Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”

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