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People are much too solemn about things - I'm all for sticking pins into episcopal behinds.

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Aldous Huxley
Age: 69 †
Born: 1894
Born: July 26
Died: 1963
Died: November 22
Novelist
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Aldous Leonard Huxley
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God in the safe and Ford on the shelves.
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Hell isn't merely paved with good intentions it's walled and roofed with them. Yes, and furnished too.
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When truth is nothing but truth, it's unnatural, it's an abstraction that resembles nothing in the real world.
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No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.
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Dinted dimpled wimpled-his mind wandered down echoing corridors of assonance and alliteration ever further and further from the point. He was enamoured with the beauty of words.
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Words form the thread on which we string our experiences. [Therefore be careful how you interpret your life. Don't think or speak negatively lest your subconscious and others take you at your word and you are hung by your own tongue!]
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There is something curiously boring about somebody else's happiness.
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And what strange voices they have! Sometimes like the complaining of small children sometimes like the noise of lambs.
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