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  • #1
    Aldous Huxley
    “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”
    Aldous Huxley, Music at Night and Other Essays

  • #2
    Aldous Huxley
    “Facts do not cease to exist because they are ignored.”
    Aldous Huxley, Complete Essays, Vol. II: 1926-1929

  • #3
    Aldous Huxley
    “Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #4
    Aldous Huxley
    “I wanted to change the world. But I have found that the only thing one can be sure of changing is oneself.”
    Aldous Huxley, Point Counter Point

  • #5
    Aldous Huxley
    “An intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”
    Aldous Huxley

  • #6
    Aldous Huxley
    “That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons that history has to teach.”
    Aldous Huxley, Collected Essays

  • #7
    Albert Schweitzer
    “There are two means of refuge from the misery of life — music and cats.”
    Albert Schweitzer

  • #8
    Terry Pratchett
    “I meant," said Ipslore bitterly, "what is there in this world that truly makes living worthwhile?"
    Death thought about it.
    CATS, he said eventually. CATS ARE NICE.”
    Terry Pratchett, Sourcery

  • #9
    Mark Twain
    “If animals could speak, the dog would be a blundering outspoken fellow; but the cat would have the rare grace of never saying a word too much.”
    Mark Twain

  • #10
    Charles Dickens
    “What greater gift than the love of a cat.”
    Charles Dickens

  • #11
    Ernest Hemingway
    “A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not.”
    Ernest Hemingway

  • #12
    Terry Pratchett
    “In fact, the mere act of opening the box will determine the state of the
    cat, although in this case there were three determinate states the cat
    could be in: these being Alive, Dead, and Bloody Furious.”
    Terry Pratchett, Lords and Ladies

  • #13
    Terry Pratchett
    “The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”
    Terry Pratchett, Diggers

  • #14
    H.G. Wells
    “If we don't end war, war will end us.”
    H.G. Wells
    tags: war

  • #15
    H.G. Wells
    “Advertising is legitimised lying.”
    H.G. Wells

  • #16
    H.G. Wells
    “Very simple was my explanation, and plausible enough---as most wrong theories are!”
    H.G. Wells, The Time Machine

  • #17
    Patrick Süskind
    “It was good, really, that this external world still existed, if only as a place of refuge.”
    patrick suskind, Perfume: The Story Of A Murderer

  • #18
    John Wyndham
    “If you run away from a thing just because you don't like it, you don't like what you find either.”
    John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

  • #19
    John Wyndham
    “The essential quality of life is living' the essential quality of living is change; change is evolution; and we are part of it.”
    John Wyndham, The Chrysalids

  • #20
    John Wyndham
    “Some quotations," said Zellaby, "are greatly improved by lack of context.”
    John Wyndham, The Midwich Cuckoos

  • #21
    Wilfred Owen
    “The universal pervasion of ugliness, hideous landscapes, vile noises, foul language...everything. Unnatural, broken, blasted; the distortion of the dead, whose unburiable bodies sit outside the dug outs all day, all night, the most execrable sights on earth. In poetry we call them the most glorious.”
    Wilfred Owen, The Collected Poems of Wilfred Owen

  • #22
    Robert Frost
    “A poem begins with a lump in the throat; a homesickness or a love sickness. It is a reaching-out toward expression; an effort to find fulfillment. A complete poem is one where an emotion has found its thought and the thought has found words.”
    Robert Frost

  • #23
    Aldous Huxley
    “The surest way to work up a crusade in favor of some good cause is to promise people they will have a chance of maltreating someone. To be able to destroy with good conscience, to be able to behave badly and call your bad behavior 'righteous indignation' — this is the height of psychological luxury, the most delicious of moral treats.”
    Aldous Huxley, Crome Yellow

  • #24
    Oscar Wilde
    “Actors are so fortunate. They can choose whether they will appear in tragedy or in comedy, whether they will suffer or make merry, laugh or shed tears. But in real life it is different. Most men and women are forced to perform parts for which they have no qualifications. Our Guildensterns play Hamlet for us, and our Hamlets have to jest like Prince Hal. The world is a stage, but the play is badly cast.”
    Oscar Wilde, Lord Arthur Savile's Crime and Other Stories

  • #25
    Vincent  Price
    “What's important about an actor is his acting, not his life.”
    Vincent Price



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