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In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.
-Aldous Huxley
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In Books, The Proportion Of Exceptional To

Aldous Huxley
In books, the proportion of exceptional to commonplace people is high; in reality, very low.
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Life's very difficult and full of surprises. at all events, i've got as far as that. to be humble and kind, to go straight ahead, to love people rather than pity them, to remember the submerged - well, one can't do all these things at once, worse luck, because they're so contradictory. it's then that proportion comes in - to live by proportion. don't begin with proportion. only prigs do that. let proportion come in as a last resource, when the better things have failed.
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Cliche refers to words, commonplace to ideas. cliche describes the form or the letter, commonplace the substance or spirit. to confuse them is to confuse the thought with the expression of the thought. the cliche is immediately perceivable; the commonplace very often escapes notice if decked out in original dress. there are few examples, in any literature, of new ideas expressed in original form. the most critical mind must often be content with one or the other of these pleasures, only too happy when it is not deprived of both at once, which is not too rarely the case.
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