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World Quotes by Angela Carter
- 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…
- Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
- In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
- Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means…
- My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic…
- In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from…
- The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.
- And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a…
- For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories…
- Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no…
- He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in…
- Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
- That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who…
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- Culture relates to objects and is a phenomenon of the world; entertainment relates to people and is a phenomenon of life. — Hannah Arendt
- The Third World is not a reality but an ideology. — Hannah Arendt
- The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be accounted the… — Hannah Arendt
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- You will never do anything in this world without courage. It is the greatest quality of the mind next to honor. — Aristotle
- No one would choose a friendless existence on condition of having all the other things in the world. — Aristotle
- It is not once nor twice but times without number that the same ideas make their appearance in the world. — Aristotle
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- I mean there's enormous pressures to harmonize freedom of speech legislation and transparency legislation around the world - within the E.U., between… — Julian Assange
- I think the responsibility lies with the fashion world as a collective. We have to demand more variety. — Kevyn Aucoin
- Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause of the… — Mahmoud Abbas
- Live never to be ashamed if anything you say or do is published around the world, even if what is said is… — Richard Bach