"Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure." — Angela Carter

"Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure."

— Angela Carter

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129 Quotes by Angela Carter

Angela Carter has 129 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience…
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she…
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a…
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer…
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a…
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults…
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

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More Anticipation Quotes

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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
Faith without works is like a bird without wings; though she may hop with her companions on earth, yet she… — Francis Beaumont
Hollywood... a city I was to come back to time and again, in sickness and in health, in success and… — Dirk Benedict
He who matures early lives in anticipation. — Theodor Adorno
There are people who are always anticipating trouble, and in this way they manage to enjoy many sorrows that never… — Josh Billings
What is history but a fable agreed upon? — Napoleon Bonaparte
No winter lasts forever; no spring skips its turn. — Hal Borland
There is great beauty in going through life without anxiety or fear. Half our fears are baseless, and the other… — Christian Nestell Bovee
Don't be afraid of death so much as an inadequate life. — Bertolt Brecht
I look to the future because that's where I'm going to spend the rest of my life. — George Burns
If you want to conquer fear, don't sit home and think about it. Go out and get busy. — Dale Carnegie

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