“DAMN MY EGGS! DAMN ALL THE EGGS THAT EVER WAS!" - Wilson”
A Raisin in the Sun
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Lorraine Hansberry 14
playwright and writer 1930–1965Related quotes
“It serves me right for putting all my eggs in one bastard.”
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.”
“[holds up an egg] This is AIDS. AIDS is as real as an egg.”
The Sarah Silverman Program
“A hen is only an egg's way of making another egg.”
Life and Habit http://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/etext04/lfhb10h.htm, ch. 8 (1877)
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.”
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.
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.