Angela Carter Quotes About Literature
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A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
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Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.
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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 already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
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It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
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Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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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 realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
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For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.
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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 and now is what we must contend with.
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It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
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