![]() ![]() ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, (Character: Helmholtz Watson), “Words can be like X-rays if you use them properly – they’ll go through anything. Mental excess could produce, for its own purposes, the voluntary blindness and deafness of deliberate solitude, the artificial impotence of asceticism.” “A physical shortcoming could produce a kind of mental excess. But what on earth’s the good of being pierced by an article about a Community Sing, or the latest improvement in scent organs? Besides, can you make words really piercing-you know, like the very hardest X-rays when you’re writing about that sort of thing? Can you say something about nothing?” That’s one of the things I try to teach my students-how to write piercingly. But what? What is there more important to say? And how can one be violent about the sort of things one’s expected to write about? Words can be like X-rays, if you use them properly-they’ll go through anything. It’s not enough for the phrases to be good what you make with them ought to be good too…I feel I could do something much more important. “I’m pretty good at inventing phrases- you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you’d sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they’re about something hypnopaedically obvious. “Did you ever feel…as though you had something inside you that was only waiting for you to give it a chance to come out? Some sort of extra power that you aren’t using – you know, like all the water that goes down the falls instead of through the turbines?” “Those who meant well behaved in the same way as those who meant badly.” ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Pages 35, 36īrave New World Quotes And Page Numbers Chapter 4 “Take a holiday from reality whenever you like, and come back without so much as a headache or a mythology.” “All the advantages of Christianity and alcohol none of their defects.” “Euphoric, narcotic, pleasantly hallucinant.” “Six years later it was being produced commercially. “Two thousand pharmacologists and biochemists were subsidized in A.F. “But they used to take morphia and cocaine.” “There was a thing called the soul and a thing called immortality.” “There was a thing called Heaven but all the same they used to drink enormous quantities of alcohol.” ~Aldous Huxley, Brave New World, Pages 33, 35 You can’t consume much if you sit still and read books.” The unchecked stream flows smoothly down its appointed channels into a calm well being.” “Impulse arrested spills over, and the flood is feeling, the flood is passion, the flood is even madness: it depends on the force of the current, the height and strength of the barrier. “No social stability without individual stability.” “A love of nature keeps no factories busy.”īrave New World Quotes With Page Numbers Chapter 3 Quotes From Brave New World With Page Numbers Chapter 2 ![]() “That is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you’ve got to do.” All conditioning aims at that: making people like their unescapable social destiny.” “And that,” put in the Director sententiously, “that is the secret of happiness and virtue - liking what you’ve got to do.
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