"There is a striking resemblance between the act……" — Angela Carter

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

— 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 Act Quotes

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Under conditions of tyranny it is far easier to act than to think. — Hannah Arendt
It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has… — Hannah Arendt
We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit. — Aristotle
Quality is not an act, it is a habit. — Aristotle
Excellence is an art won by training and habituation. We do not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence,… — Aristotle
Thou wilt find rest from vain fancies if thou doest every act in life as though it were thy last. — Aristotle
Storytelling is fine as long as you can encourage people to act on the stories. — Karen Armstrong
Music is the social act of communication among people, a gesture of friendship, the strongest there is. — Malcolm Arnold
Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
We like to engage in a normal publishing effort, which is to act in a responsible manner and make sure… — Julian Assange
Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of… — Wystan Hugh Auden

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