“I’m thinking of a queer feeling I sometimes get, a feeling that I’ve got something important to say and the power to say it — only I don’t know what it is, and I can’t make any use of the power. If there was some different way of writing…Or else something else to write about…” He was silent; then, “You see,” he went on at last, “I’m pretty good at inventing phrases — you know, the sort of words that suddenly make you jump, almost as though you’d sat on a pin, they seem so new and exciting even though they’re about something hypnopædically obvious. But that doesn’t seem enough. It’s not enough for the phrases to be good; what you make with them ought to be good too.”
– Aldous Huxley
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Exactly how I feel about a good quote that I find. Pin Prick….
I sat on a pin the other day for real, and it wasn’t really delightful….
I’ve actually thought of that before, this feeling like there is something important on my tongue that I can’t quite spit out…
good book, excellent quote.
Ahh, I love that book. And that quote.
Brave New World is my favorite book ever exactly for quotes like this.
google let me read the newest post that no longer exists and I just wanted to say that I’m in a similar situation.
That last sentence could apply to just about anything we ever say or write. Wonderful quote.
Someday, I want at least one of my phrases to make someone jump up and take notice. Someday.