"He was a lovely man in many ways.……" — Angela Carter
"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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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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When a man laughs at his troubles he loses a great many friends. They never forgive the loss of their…
— Francis Bacon
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When women love us, they forgive us everything, even our crimes; when they do not love us, they give us…
— Honore de Balzac
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One of the secrets of a long and fruitful life is to forgive everybody everything everynight before you go to…
— Bernard Baruch
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I can forgive, but I cannot forget, is only another way of saying, I will not forgive. Forgiveness ought to…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Selfishness is that detestable vice which no one will forgive in others, and no one is without himself.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is a very delicate job to forgive a man, without lowering him in his own estimation, and yours too.
— Josh Billings
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It is easier to forgive an enemy than to forgive a friend.
— William Blake
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I've been praying to God to show me how to forgive myself. Because... maybe... that's the thing I've been searching…
— Mary J. Blige
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Forgive yourself for your faults and your mistakes and move on.
— Les Brown
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Forgive those who have hurt you.
— Les Brown
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Two persons cannot long be friends if they cannot forgive each other's little failings.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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We all like to forgive, and love best not those who offend us least, nor who have done most for…
— Samuel Butler
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