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“Just under the crown of the arch dangled a pair of feet
'Mr Savage!'
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north east, east, south east, south, south-south-west; then paused, after a few seconds, turned as unhurried back towards the left. South-south-west, south-south-east, east”
― Brave New World
'Mr Savage!'
Slowly, very slowly, like two unhurried compass needles, the feet turned towards the right; north, north east, east, south east, south, south-south-west; then paused, after a few seconds, turned as unhurried back towards the left. South-south-west, south-south-east, east”
― Brave New World
“Those Shapes so gay and brilliant on the white pages”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“Not so much like drops of water, though water, it is true, can wear holes in the hardest granite; rather, drops of liquid sealing-wax, drops that adhere, incrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on, till finally the rock is all one scarlet blob.”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“He defines philosophy as the finding of bad reason for what one believes by instinct. As if one believes anything by instinct! One believes things because one has been conditioned to believe them”
― Brave New World
― Brave New World
“An American near Billy wailed that he had excreted everything but his brains. Moments later he said, “There they go, there they go.” He meant his brains. That was I. That was me. That was the author of this book.”
― Slaughterhouse-Five
― Slaughterhouse-Five
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