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Aldous Huxley

"But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable, fact does not."

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"But then the course of events takes no account of verisimilitude. Fiction has to be probable, fact does not."

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"By the truth we are undone. Life is a dream. 'Tis the waking that kills us. He who robs us of our dreams robs us of our life."

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"The real world is oftentimes different from what you expect it to be, what you think it to be, and what people might say it to be."

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"Children, our lives have been gongs striking; clamour and boasting; cries of despair; blows on the nape of the neck in gardens."

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"A fool or idiot is one who expects things to happen that never can happen."

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"It's more real to me here than if I went up," he suddenly heard himself say; and the fear lest that last shadow of reality should lose its edge kept him rooted to his seat as the minutes succeeded each other."

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"Some people think the stars must look closer from up here. They don't. When you're up here, you realize how distant they really are-how impossible to reach."

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"The prince is never going to come. Everyone knows that, and maybe sleeping beauty's dead."

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"My date the next night brought a sock puppet with him. A. Sock. Puppet. And he talked to me with it'... 'It completely freaked me out,' Kalani continued. 'I made it through drinks and that was more than enough. I told the guy it was a good thing he had one good hand left because if this was his usual MO for dates, he was going to need it."

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