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Angela Carter Quotes

«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.»
Author: Angela Carter (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: bring to, novel
«Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation»
«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.»
«Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.»
«They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on.»
«If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.»
«This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of the earth, that they might witness their own wretchedness.»
«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.»
«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 of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.»
«The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.»

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