Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth. . … - Aldous Huxley

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I am a theater girl, and a lot of theater girls dress however pleases them. I wear whatever looks good on me. I wear what I wear because I have been shopping at thrift stores since I was five.

Aldous Huxley

Life's so ordinary that literature has to deal with the exceptional. Exceptional talent, power, social position, wealth. . . . Dramabegins where there's freedom of choice. And freedom of choice begins when social or psychological conditions are exceptional. That's why the inhabitants of imaginative literature have always been recruited from the pages of Who's Who.

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The people who kill and torture and tell lies in the name of their sacred causes, these are never the publicans and the sinners. No, they're the virtuous, respectable men, who have the finest feelings, the best brains, the noblest ideals.

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