Carolina QuotesMaybe this world is another planet's Hell.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
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In Laurence J. Peter, Peter's Quotations: Ideas for Our Time (1979), p. 239 — Point Counter Point (New York: The Modern Library, 1928), Chapter XVII, p. 263: "'Why shouldn’t they be unhappy?' Spandrell enquired. 'Perhaps it’s what they’re here for. How do you know that the earth isn’t some other planet’s hell.'"
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- 1928
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- p. 239
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“Maybe this world is another planet's Hell.” Aldous Huxley. Carolina Quotes, record CQ-BA5CE971A4. https://carolinaquotes.com/quote/ba5ce971a4
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