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Quotes from Point Counter Point — Aldous Huxley

1894–1963 England

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Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.

Point Counter Point (1928)

Happiness is like coke — something you get as a by-product in the process of making something else.

Point Counter Point (1928)

Silence is as full of potential wisdom and wit as the unshown marble of great sculpture.

Point Counter Point (1928)

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

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Everybody strains after happiness, and the result is that nobody's happy.

Point Counter Point (1928)

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

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An irrelevance, and your life’s altered.

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Being cared for when one is dead is less satisfactory than being cared for when one is alive.

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Resentment bred shame, and shame in its turn bred more resentment.

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A bad book is as much of a labour to write as a good one; it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.

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Brought up in an epoch when ladies apparently rolled along on wheels, Mr. Quarles was peculiarly susceptible to calves.

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There is no substitute for talent. Industry and all the virtues are of no avail.

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Nothing — the only perfection, the only absolute. Infinite and eternal nothing.

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"And besides," he added, forgetting that several excuses are always less convincing than one, "Lady Edward's inviting an American editor specially for my sake."

Point Counter Point (1928)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Aldous Huxley (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.