Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes

• 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.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Paz, Guerra, Hombres

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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.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Mind, Welcome, Trouble

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• Es cuando la mayoría de los invitados se han ido cuando la fiesta se pone realmente interesante: mirar por debajo de la mesa y dentro de la bañera para ver quién se ha quedado y en qué estado se encuentra. Es entonces cuando los que aún están conscientes divulgan cosas que no sabías: a veces sobre ellos mismos, a veces sobre otras personas y a veces sobre ti. No es necesariamente agradable de oír, pero siempre resulta fascinante. En un ambiente relajado, tras la algarabía, se relajan y se vuelven confidenciales, es más, indiscretos. Si no lo son ya, acaban convirtiéndose en tus mejores amigos.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Party, Interesting, People

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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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  Memories, Book, Giving

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• things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Trouble, Ghastly

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

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• Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Optimism, Heaven, Despair

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• Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Laughter, Evil

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• Adolescence is usually typified by an unanswerable combination of innocence and insolence.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Innocence, Combination, Insolence

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1994). “The Summer House: A Trilogy”, Penguin Group USA

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• I have frequently thought that the dead should be buried with all their belongings. It seems weirdly perverse that their clothes should still be here when the people you love best in the world have gone.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Love Is, Clothes, People

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1997). “Home Life”

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• I like money. That is, it is my preferred means of completing pecuniary transactions. I'm not particularly keen on handing over wads of currency of the realm, but at least one knows where one is, whereas the chequebook is a snare and a delusion, containing misleading numbers of blank cheques when none of the money that the bank contains is rightfully one's own. ... I think banks owe their customers a lot by way of compensation for the aggravation they cause them.

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  Mean, Thinking, Aggravation

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• Hay una pizca de desesperación en el grito de "Os lo dije", un elemento de decepción en la aparente satisfacción cuando los ídolos resultan tener los pies de barro. La raza humana, cuando cree haber demostrado que nadie es superior, se siente en parte gratificada y en parte deprimida.

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  Disappointment, Thinking, Race

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

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Inspiración, Muerte, Pasado

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• One can get very fond of the people one meets in bars. The trouble is they then appear sort of different in the daylight and you realize that taking them with you is rather like taking a goldfish for a walk: not entirely correct, and surprising for the next people you run into.

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  Correr, Gente, Diferente

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

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• 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.

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  Heart, Thinking, Eggs

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• Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Doe, Chance, God Does Exist

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1987). “Unexplained Laughter”, Harpercollins

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• when a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Mean, Views, Speed

  Alice Thomas Ellis (1988). “Home Life Three”, Gerald Duckworth

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• Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Vanity, Mortification, Dies

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• Claudia's the sort of girl who goes through life holding onto the sides.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Girl, Women, Sides

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• Phrase books seem to be a universal and eternal source of hilarity and I think I know why. Their authors go mad in the course of compiling them.

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  Book, Thinking, Mad

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• Parece existir un vínculo peculiar y particular entre los hombres que se han emborrachado juntos.

  Alice Thomas Ellis

  Drinking, Men, Ties

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