“ Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. ”
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“ She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a noman’s land between life and death, sleeping and waking. ”
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“ To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm? ”
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“ Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ Reading a book is like rewriting it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder. ”
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“ They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on. ”
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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. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ I think the adjective "post-modernist" really means "mannerist." Books about books is fun but frivolous. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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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 world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies — all the bits and pieces of our unique existences. ”
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“ Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. ”
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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 question: "Where was I before I was born." In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it. ”
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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 do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies — all the bits and pieces of our unique existences. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies — all the bits and pieces of our unique existences. ”
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“ It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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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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“ It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ They live only in a world of icons and there they participate in rituals which transmute life itself to a series of grand gestures, as moving as they are absurd. ”
- Angela Carter- Copy
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“ We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies — all the bits and pieces of our unique existences. ”
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