Carolina QuotesSpeed, it seems to me, provides the one genuinely modern pleasure.
Aldous Huxley Connected to the Carolinas
Source
"Wanted, a New Pleasure"
- work
- Music at Night and Other Essays (1931)
- year
- 1931
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