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"15 Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 9 September 1932. Died: 8 March 2005 | Writer | Essayist |

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

Adolescence Unanswerable Innocence Insolence
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It was probable, I thought, that what I disliked in him was what Nour had disliked in me, and that the whole world was mad.

Disliked World Mad Thought
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The paintings seemed to bear the same relation to reality as prayers to the vision of God.

Paintings Relation Prayers Vision
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How the vulgar loved portents, prodigies and the untoward. Only the religious knew how embarrassing they could be - and quite beside the point.

Vulgar Portents Prodiies Religious
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Well, I think adultery is a filthy habit,' said Rose, 'like using someone else's toothbrush.

Think Adultery Filthy habit
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Evil and laughter cannot co-exist.

Evil Laughter Co-exist
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Those who live on vanity must, not unreasonably, expect to die of mortification.

Live Vanity Unreasonable Mortification
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There is no reciprocity. Men love women. Women love children. Children love hamsters. Hamsters don't love anyone; it is quite hopeless".

Reciprocity Men Women Love
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. . to cook well and with imagination you have to be in a cheerful and contented frame of mind, and thus inclined to be generous.

Cook Imagination Cheerful Mind
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Our only hope rests on the off-chance that God does exist.

Our Hope Off-chance God
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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.

Men War Wandered Women
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Optimism is the last resort of those in deep despair. There can't be any optimists in heaven.
Optimism Last Resort Despair
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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.

Person Implores Reasonable View
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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.

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

Death Enemy Everything Alright
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Alice Thomas Ellis Quotes & Sayings