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Angela Carter has 135 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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 of the…
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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 has to…
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here…
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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 to the…
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The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge…
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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 gives woman…
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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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I thought of Emmett Till, and when the bus driver ordered me to move to the back, I just couldn’t move.
— Rosa Parks
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The President of the United States ordered me to break through the Japanese lines and proceed from Corregidor to Australia for the…
— Douglas MacArthur
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Some people start a sport just to reduce weight, or some say, 'My doctor ordered me to run and do exercise', and…
— Haile Gebrselassie
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And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.
— Berkeley Breathed
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...but Dimitri...well, my former lover and instructor was in a category all his own. His fighting skills were beyond anyone else's, and…
— Richelle Mead
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But I liked you from the moment I first heard your voice,” he said, “when I had no idea what you looked…
— Loretta Chase
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ordered me a sky from a florist
— Angela Carter
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if she had ordered me to throw myself down then, I would have done it! If she had said it only as…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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If AOL had ever ordered me to remove a piece of content from the site for any reason, I would have immediately…
— Michael Arrington
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