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De Sade is the one completely consistent and thoroughgoing revolutionary of history. Aldous Huxley

History Consistent Sade Revolutionary

Feasts must be solemn and rare, or else they cease to be feasts. Aldous Huxley

Rare Else Solemn Must Feast Cease

Man is an intelligence in servitude to his organs. Aldous Huxley

Man Intelligence His Organs Servitude

A fanatic is a man who consciously over compensates a secret doubt. Aldous Huxley

Man Doubt Secret Over Fanatic Who

God isn't compatible with machinery and scientific medicine and universal happiness. You must make your choice. Our civilization has chosen machinery and medicine and happiness. Aldous Huxley

Happiness God You Medicine Our Our Choice Machinery Must Civilization Make Scientific Choice Your Chosen Compatible Universal

That we are not much sicker and much madder than we are is due exclusively to that most blessed and blessing of all natural graces, sleep. Aldous Huxley

Blessing Natural Blessed Madder Most Due Than Graces Much Sleep

We are all geniuses up to the age of ten. Aldous Huxley

Age Ten Geniuses Up

I gladly accepted the commission but was uncertain about what the end result would be. On the one hand, Cuban music was conquering the world; being heard everywhere, and our small island was already producing one of the popular musical genres of the 20th century. Alejo Carpentier

Music World Result Our Musical Everywhere Would Would-Be About Uncertain Small Gladly Genres Cuban Accepted Island Heard Hand End End Result Commission Being Century Producing Popular Conquering

Even the pallid daughters of Albion forget for a moment their Pre-Raphaelite poses by burying themselves in the sonorous sortilege of the Antilles. Alejo Carpentier

Daughters Forget Burying Themselves Moment Even Poses

I didn't intend to be a novelist. I didn't intend to be anything. I thought I'd be a journalist. Alex Garland

Thought Journalist Intend Anything Novelist

Look, when AIs come up, they're not going to be like us. A self-aware, sentient AI is not going to be like a human. Alex Garland

AI Come Like Look Up Going Human Sentient Us

I think that screenwriting probably isn't seen as writing in the same way that novel-writing is seen as writing. But I certainly don't see it that way. Alex Garland

Writing Seen Think Way See Same Screenwriting Certainly

What I see in science is a lot of imagination referring to things that are fundamental to what we are. Our cells, our history, our future, our place in the universe, our lack of place in the universe. That's poetry as far as I'm concerned. Alex Garland

Future History Science Imagination Universe Our See Poetry Concerned Referring Lot Cells Lack As Far As Place Far Fundamental Things

Part of debunking the mythology of filmmaking is that we tend to want to locate it often in one person. And it's not one person. It's a collective, and it is a collaboration. Alex Garland

Collective Collaboration Locate Tend Mythology Part Person Often Want Filmmaking

When you encounter people in life - like a chance encounter at a bar or wherever you happen to be - you make these incredibly quick, quite intricate decisions about people based on very small amounts of coded information. We're good at that. Alex Garland

Life Good You People Incredibly Intricate About Small Small Amounts Like Make Encounter Quick Very Quite Happen Wherever Information Bar Decisions Based Amount Chance