Carolina QuotesIn the old dramas it was love that had to be sacrificed to painful duty. In the modern instance the sacrifice is at the shrine of what William James called “the Bitch Goddess, Success.” Love is to be abandoned for the stern pursuit of newspaper notoriety and dollars.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
“Silence is Golden”, p. 61
- work
- Do What You Will (1928)
- year
- 1928
- locator
- p. 61
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