Angela Carter Quotes

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• 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 of the world. You bring…
• 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 has to do is to…
• 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…
• There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: Where was…
• The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I…
• 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 gives woman emotional satisfaction, it…
• 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.
• It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
• In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
• Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
• Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
• The end of exile is the end of being.
• A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
• Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
• I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

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