Ocupation: Writer
Life: July 26, 1894 - November 22, 1963
Birthday: July 26
Death: November 22
You got rid of them. Yes, that’s just like you. Getting rid of everything unpleasant instead of learning to put up with it. Whether ‘tis better in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune, or to take arms against a sea of troubles and by opposing end them… But you don’t do either. Neither suffer nor oppose. You just abolish the slings and arrows. It’s too easy.
source: Aldous Huxley (1933). “Retrospect: an omnibus of Aldous Huxley's books”
topic: Sea, Arrows, Mind, Abolish, Brave New World Happiness, Slings And Arrows