"Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is……" — Angela Carter
"Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence."
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129 Quotes by Angela Carter
Angela Carter has 129 quotes on this site.
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience…
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she…
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a…
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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer…
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The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a…
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What a joy it is to dance and sing!
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Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults…
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A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
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More Anxiety Quotes
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What the statesman is most anxious to produce is a certain moral character in his fellow citizens, namely a disposition…
— Aristotle
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Now is the age of anxiety.
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If some great catastrophe is not announced every morning, we feel a certain void. Nothing in the paper today, we…
— Lord Acton
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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I have the normal complement of anxieties, neuroses, psychoses and whatever else - but I'm absolutely nothing special.
— Clive Barker
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Gather experience... Look at what you should not look at. A feeling of anxiety is the sure and certain evidence…
— Clive Barker
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First and foremost, the monk should own nothing in this world, but he should have as his possessions solitude of…
— Saint Basil
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Obama's economic policies obviously have not worked, and have left the American market place with enormous uncertainty and anxiety.
— Bob Beauprez
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Anything you're trying to will is focused on the future; it's always associated with some sort of anxiety that makes…
— Martha Beck
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Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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The thinner the ice, the more anxious is everyone to see whether it will bear.
— Josh Billings
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A crust eaten in peace is better than a banquet partaken in anxiety.
— Aesop
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