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Angela Carter
English Novelist
Born: May 7, 1940
Died: Feb 16, 1992
Life Man Me Woman World You
Related authors: Aldous Huxley Charles Dickens E. M. Forster J. R. R. Tolkien Thomas Hardy William Golding William Makepeace Thackeray
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
Culture Think Too Our Align Ourselves High Scars Angels Higher Instead Opinion
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine. Angela Carter
Sunshine Seen Everyone Had Most Democratic California Contract Whether Ever Thing
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. Angela Carter
Life Death Matter Nothing Life And Death Except
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. Angela Carter
Day Argument Salt Like Without Egg
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. Angela Carter
Memories Old Our Come Nostalgia Vice Movies Aged Old Movies Many Watch
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. Angela Carter
Future Nothingness Say Those Must Hopes Hypothesis Contend Pin Which Your Now Here
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions. Angela Carter
Ambition Incurable Enterprises Most Principle Himself Cover Passions Person Inflexible Where Appearance Even
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
History You Experience Yourself Book World Reading Own Like Terms Read Anything Your Novel Bring
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. Angela Carter
Soul Anxiety Beginning Innocence Parent Which Compatible Conscience
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? Angela Carter
Blame Will Bad Things Destroyed Bad Able Barbarians Then Who Things
It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. Angela Carter
Better Passion Valued Object Never Perhaps Than
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? Angela Carter
Man Marriage One-Man Instead Many
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. Angela Carter
Time You Woman Age Mind Every Our Our Time Some Impersonator Like She Looks Known Female Tragedy After Lovely Certain Certain Age
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them. Angela Carter
Father Back Ruins Carried Never Troy Like Perhaps Known His Whether Aged Them Even Dad
You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself. Angela Carter
Love Myself You Suffering Words Mirror Own Other Relation Must My Own Only Knew Him In Other Words Realize Image
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. Angela Carter
War Time Day Family Me Doctor World Mother Once Carrying Magic About Had Talent She Learned Been Very Same Same Time Realism Second World War Second World War

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