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If human beings were shown what they're really like, they'd either kill one another as vermin, or hang themselves.

Aldous Huxley

Aldous Huxley (1894–1963), British novelist. Mark Staithes, in Eyeless in Gaza, ch. 46 (1936).

This observation is meant to deflate literary pretensions to telling the whole truth about human life.

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