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litreactor.com Aldous Huxley's 'Brave New World': From The Network That Brought You 'Sharknado' Syfy is adapting Huxley's classic 'Brave New World' for Syfy.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which means never losing your enthusiasm.

Aldous Huxley (via vintageanchorbooks)

Deprived of their newspapers or a novel, reading-addicts will fall back onto cookery books, on the literature which is wrapped around bottles of patent medicine, on those instructions for keeping the contents crisp which are printed on the outside of boxes of breakfast cereals. On anything.

Aldous Huxley, The Olive Tree (via abookblog)

Maybe this world is another planet’s hell.

Aldous Huxley (via feellng)

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 (via bookmania)

To write fiction, one needs a whole series of inspirations about people in an actual environment, and then a whole lot of work on the basis of those inspirations.

Aldous Huxley (via writingquotes)

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Huxley vs. Orwell
Oh crap.
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Even more terrifying - Orwell is lauded as a genius for his work, Huxley is considered a drug addict.
If you’ve never read Brave New World, you need to read it.
Important.