"The poet's place, it seems to me, is with the Mr. Hydes of human nature."

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Aldous Huxley

#Hyde Quotes #Human Nature Quotes #Poet Quotes

“What helped me most were my failures and slumps - when I couldn't get work, people weren't interested in me or had written me off.”
“The real measure of your wealth is how much you'd be worth if you lost all your money.”
“The truth is most of the films that make a lot of money no one remembers, and I'm not interested in making films that no one remembers.”
“I think I'm an abstinence symbol. If I take my shirt off, people will not have babies.”
“In science, each new point of view calls forth a revolution in nomenclature.”
“Directing requires great discipline, that ability to be in and out at the same time. The great ones I've worked with are like generals. It's a bit like a small war on that level. The great ones have that combination of freedom and control. I'm nowhere near that. There's still so much to do as an actor. I have enough to explore with that.”
“As Baudelaire said it so beautifully, Emma Bovary is an androgynous character. She cannot be reduced to a gender or a sociological type. She represents something bigger than herself. That was the genius of Flaubert: the ability to combine the general and the particular.”
“Dysphagia is the medical term for not being able to swallow, and I know that there are two kinds of dysphagia: oropharyngeal and esophageal. But maybe there is also a third kind of dysphagia that comes when your heart breaks into pieces. I can't swallow because I have that kind.”

Source : Holly Goldberg Sloan (2013). “Counting by 7s”, p.84, Penguin

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