I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. . . . I am … - Alice Thomas Ellis

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The game of baseball is a game of failure because it's so difficult to play. A 300 hitter, a superstar fails seven out of ten times at the plate. So what does that tell you about the game and its difficulty?

Alice Thomas Ellis

I think the meaning of the universe is bound up with the egg. . . . I am fed up with the meaning of the universe. Everything starts in the egg and ends in death. I think it's called 'the heartbreak at the heart of things. ' But then perhaps our very mortality is an egg and at the moment of death our souls will emerge like damp chicks.

Eggs, Emerge, Heart, Heartbreak, Souls, Thinking

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Men were made for war. Without it they wandered greyly about, getting under the feet of the women, who were trying to organize the really important things of life.

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Death is the last enemy: once we've got past that I think everything will be alright.

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It's when most of the guests have gone that the party really gets interesting - peering under the table and into the bath to see who's stayed and what shape they're in. It is then that those who are still conscious divulge things you had not known before: sometimes about themselves, sometimes about other people and sometimes about you. It does not necessarily make pleasant hearing but it is always fascinating. In the relaxed atmosphere, in the wake of the hubbub, they unwind and grow confidential - nay, indiscreet. If they are not already, they end up as your closest friends.

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The snag in being married to a person who knows more or less everything is that one gets hopelessly lazy. . . . I never look things up in books because all I need to do is ask him, and when he gives me the answers I don't properly commit them to memory because I know if I forget all I have to do is to ask him again. It is rather like keeping one's brain in a suitcase.

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I have never had much trouble simultaneously entertaining diametrically opposed propositions, and welcome the possibility that this is not because I have one mind and am out of it, but because I have lots of them, all beavering away on their own.

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