Angela Carter

Novelist

United Kingdom

1940 - 1992

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
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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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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
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Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
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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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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.
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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
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A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
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If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
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I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
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