"His contagious conviction that our love was unique……" — Angela Carter
"His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail."
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129 Quotes by Angela Carter
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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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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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There’s an important difference and distinction between the objective medical fact of my being an amputee and the subjective societal…
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The nurse is temporarily the consciousness of the unconscious, the love of life for the suicidal, the leg of the…
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I felt more alone that week than any. Sometimes I'd feel a body lying next to me like an amputee…
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The night before my amputation, my former basketball coach brought me a magazine with an article on an amputee who…
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With this blistering salvo of poetic gutshots Lawson has proven himself Bizarro’s true bard, its mad laureate. Switching from dark…
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If I ever saw an amputee getting hanged, I'd probably just start calling out letters.
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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse…
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People presume my disability has to do with being an amputee, but that's not the case; our insecurities are our…
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I've had journalists asking me, 'What do we call you - is it handicapped, are you disabled, physically challenged?' I…
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