[... vastly different peoples live and work side by side but rarely come together, like the arms of an egg beater that] whirled independently and never touched, so that perhaps one arm never knew the other was there; yet they were together, turned by the same handle, and the cake was mixed by both.
Elspeth HuxleyEnglish tradition debars from dinner-table conversation almost all topics that might interest the conversers and insists upon strict adherence to banalities.
Elspeth HuxleyHow much does one imagine, how much observe? One can no more separate those functions than divide light from air, or wetness from water.
Elspeth HuxleyAfrica is cruel...it takes your heart and grinds it into powdered stone - and no-one minds
Elspeth Huxley