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Quotes from Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
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1 He played with the little boys for a long time.
2 Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children.
3 I shall spend the evening at the Club playing Musical Bridge.
4 But one's got to make the effort,' she said sententiously, 'one's got to play the game.
5 The crowds that daily left London left it only to play Electro-magnetic Golf or Tennis.
6 It's just that this little boy seems rather reluctant to join in the ordinary erotic play.
7 Near Shepherd's Bush two thousand Beta-Minus mixed doubles were playing Riemann-surface tennis.
8 Imagine the folly of allowing people to play elaborate games which do nothing whatever to increase consumption.
9 And what you ought to do is on the whole so pleasant, so many of the natural impulses are allowed free play, that there really aren't any temptations to resist.
10 A notice in the lift announced that there were sixty Escalator-Squash-Racquet Courts in the hotel, and that Obstacle and Electro-magnetic Golf could both be played in the park.
11 One afternoon, when he had been playing with the other children--it was cold, he remembered, and there was snow on the mountains--he came back to the house and heard angry voices in the bedroom.
12 Above these again were the playrooms where, the weather having turned to rain, nine hundred older children were amusing themselves with bricks and clay modelling, hunt-the-zipper, and erotic play.
13 Strange,' mused the Director, as they turned away, 'strange to think that even in Our Ford's day most games were played without more apparatus than a ball or two and a few sticks and perhaps a bit of netting.
14 Naked in the warm June sunshine, six or seven hundred little boys and girls were running with shrill yells over the lawns, or playing ball games, or squatting silently in twos and threes among the flowering shrubs.
15 Propped up on pillows, she was watching the Semi-finals of the South American Riemann-Surface Tennis Championship, which were being played in silent and diminished reproduction on the screen of the television box at the foot of the bed.
16 In a little grassy bay between tall clumps of Mediterranean heather, two children, a little boy of about seven and a little girl who might have been a year older, were playing, very gravely and with all the focussed attention of scientists intent on a labour of discovery, a rudimentary sexual game.