Aldous Huxley Holiday Quotations

Reality, no matter how utopian, seems to be something people need to frequently take a holiday from.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

...reality, however utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays....

[...] Technology has tended to devaluate the traditional vision-inducing materials. The illumination of a city, for example, was once a rare event, reserved for victories and national holidays, for the canonization of saints and the crowning of kings. Now it occurs nightly and celebrates the virtues of gin, cigarettes and toothpaste.