"To pin your hopes upon the future is……" — Angela Carter
"To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with."
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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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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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It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California…
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More Consign Quotes
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Love can consign us to hell or to paradise, but it always takes us somewhere.
— Paulo Coelho
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I find it hard to believe that my God would consign four-fifths of the world to hell. I can't imagine…
— Barack Obama
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But love is always new. Regardless of whether we love once, twice, or a dozen times in our life, we…
— Paulo Coelho
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What wise God would consign a man to Hell for ignorance, instead of teaching him better in the afterlife?
— Marion Zimmer Bradley
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Since no daily responses are given from heaven, and the Scriptures are the only record in which God has been…
— John Calvin
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The Conservative knows that to regard man as part of an undifferentiated mass is to consign him to ultimate slavery.
— Barry Goldwater
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I would rather instill in my amateur students love, than knowledge, of music. Left with only knowledge, they will at the…
— Ernst Bacon
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I think it perfectly just, that he who, from the love of experiment, quits an approved for an uncertain practice,…
— Thomas Beddoes
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The 2014 election has given the GOP the rare opportunity to retroactively redeem its brand. The conventional perception, incessantly repeated…
— Charles Krauthammer
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Shakespeare scholars just sigh and consign the book to the great pantheon of revelations .. I am accustomed to fanatics…
— William Shakespeare
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It is difficult to think of anything more important than providing the best education possible for our children. They will…
— Sam Harris
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He sits in his car at traffic lights on his way out sometimes and tries to estimate how many times…
— Elliot Perlman
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