WIST Quotations https://wist.info Wish I'd Said That! Fri, 29 May 2026 19:21:10 +0000 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://wist.info/wp/wp-content/uploads/2016/06/little-w-little-box-60x60.jpg well-rounded – WIST Quotations https://wist.info 32 32 43606282 Huxley, Aldous -- Letter to Virginia Ocampo (12 Dec 1946) https://wist.info/huxley-aldous/31258/ https://wist.info/huxley-aldous/31258/#respond Wed, 04 Nov 2015 14:53:51 +0000 Dave http://wist.info/?p=31258 [T.E. Lawrence] is one of those great men for whom one feels intensely sorry because he was nothing but a great man.


Aldous Huxley (1894-1963) English novelist, essayist and critic
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Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988) American writer
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