"This dance was the dance of death. [The……" — Angela Carter
"This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness."
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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 Clowns Quotes
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As I see it, fast food outfits have targeted small children with their advertising in a very effective way. You…
— Anthony Bourdain
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I played on an all-black high school team and we didn't want people saying that we were clowns.
— Oscar Robertson
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People don't buy from clowns.
— Claude C. Hopkins
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I'ma be here for a while. None of these clowns can hurt me.
— J. Cole
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I don't know why people call me a jazz singer, though I guess people associate me with jazz because I…
— Sarah Vaughan
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Back in my day in the WWF oh.. the WW EEEEE, we had it all. We had Garbage men, we…
— Shawn Michaels
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Yes, there is a conspiracy, in fact there are a great number of conspiracies that are all tripping each other…
— Alan Moore
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To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it…
— Jack Handey
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Everyone knows there's only one thing less welcome on a stage than a mime, and that's a clown, because everyone…
— Laurie Notaro
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We've become so glorified in the movie-star system that it's become this artificial royalty. The truth is that we're circus…
— Nicolas Cage
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Clowns drink to blot out the ravages of terrifying children for a living.
— Douglas Coupland
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I'm not a very serious person. You know how they say that clowns are very funny in public and are…
— Roland Joffe
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