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To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
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I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.
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Your true traveller finds boredom rather agreeable than painful. It is the symbol of his liberty - his excessive freedom. He accepts his boredom, when it comes, not merely philosophically, but almost with pleasure.
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There is no bad day that can’t be overcome by listening to a barbershop quartet. This is just truth, plain and simple.
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The quality of moral behavior varies in inverse ratio to the number of human beings involved.
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Only one more indispensable massacre of Capitalists or Communists or Fascists or Christians or Heretics, and there we are in the Golden Future.
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