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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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To do common things perfectly is far better worth our endeavor than to do uncommon things respectably.
— Harriet Beecher Stowe
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need…
— George Bernard Shaw
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Mrs. Jennings was a widow, with an ample jointure. She had only two daughters, both of whom she had lived to see…
— Jane Austen
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If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
— Angela Carter
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To be a good Briton, a man must trade profitably, marry respectably, live cleanly, avoid excess, revere the established order, and wear…
— William Ernest Henley
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I feel like I'm that new age. Real futuristic grimy shit. But it's like, now niggas will step up to where you're…
— Lil B
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It is worth the while to live respectably unto ourselves. We can possibly get along with a neighbor, even with a bedfellow,…
— Henry David Thoreau
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