“DAMN MY EGGS! DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS!" - Wilson”
A Raisin in the Sun
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Giannina Braschi (1953) Puerto Rican writer
Empire of Dreams (prose poetry, 1988)
“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”
Dorothy Parker (1893–1967) American poet, short story writer, critic and satirist
On her abortion, as quoted in You Might as well Live by John Keats (1970)
Source: You Might as Well Live: The Life and Times of Dorothy Parker
“The chicken is only an egg’s way for making another egg.”
Richard Dawkins (1941) English ethologist, evolutionary biologist and author
“[holds up an egg] This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg.”
Sarah Silverman (1970) American comedian and actress
The Sarah Silverman Program
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
Samuel Butler (1835–1902) novelist
Life and Habit http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lfhb10h.htm, ch. 8 (1877)
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Source: A Wild Sheep Chase: A Novel (1982), Chapter 13, The Rat's First Letter
“The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world.”
Hermann Hesse book Demian
Source: Demian (1919), p. 166
Variant translation: The bird is struggling out of the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wants to be born must first destroy a world. The bird is flying to God. The name of the God is called Abraxas.
As translated by W. J. Strachan
Context: The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. The God's name is Abraxas.
Haruki Murakami (1949) Japanese author, novelist
Jerusalem Prize acceptance speech, (2009)
Context: If there is a hard, high wall and an egg that breaks against it, no matter how right the wall or how wrong the egg, I will stand on the side of the egg. Why? Because each of us is an egg, a unique soul enclosed in a fragile egg. Each of us is confronting a high wall. The high wall is the system which forces us to do the things we would not ordinarily see fit to do as individuals... We are all human beings, individuals, fragile eggs. We have no hope against the wall: it's too high, too dark, too cold. To fight the wall, we must join our souls together for warmth, strength. We must not let the system control us -- create who we are. It is we who created the system.