Famous Quotes | Human contacts have been so...
Human contacts have been so highly valued in the past only because reading was not a common accomplishment.... The world, you must remember, is only just becoming literate. As reading becomes more and more habitual and widespread, an ever-increasing number of people will discover that books will give them all the pleasures of social life and none of its intolerable tedium.
- Aldous Huxley
Attribution: Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist. Henry Wimbush, in Crome Yellow, ch. 28 (1922).
Categories: Escapes, Reading, Society
