Acts of love Quote by Angela Carter

“There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.”

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He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

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Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

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I know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.

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“She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the window of her eyes…

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Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

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Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

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My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on…

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“Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction,…

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Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

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And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind…

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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

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“As the connections have been broken by the fragmentation and isolation of work, they can be restored by restoring the wholeness of work. There…

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There is no act of love that is not an act of work or courage. No exceptions.

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you can't kill love. you can't even kill it with hate. you can kill in-love, and loving, and even loveliness. you can kill them…

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... the greatest act of love is to pay attention.

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We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day.…

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Your work should be an act of love, not a marriage of convenience.

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During courtship, guarding each other's purity and refraining from intimacy are the acts of lovemaking.

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In the act of love, as in photography, there is a form of life and a kind of slow death,

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