What a gulf between impression and expression! That's our ironic fate — to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we h… - Aldous Huxley

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What a gulf between impression and expression! That's our ironic fate — to have Shakespearean feelings and (unless by some billion-to-one chance we happen to be Shakespeare) to talk about them like automobile salesmen or teen-agers or college professors. We practice alchemy in reverse — touch gold and it turns into lead; touch the pure lyrics of experience, and they turn into the verbal equivalents of tripe and hogwash.