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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Aged Come Many Memories Movies Nostalgia Old Old Movies Our Vice Watch

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Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Everybody Fools Illusion Whole World

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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Death Except Life Life And Death Matter Nothing

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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.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Acting Awful Awful Lot Became Clear Deal Easier Epiphany God Had Late Lot Me Night One Night Own Paying Sake Sitting Studio Then Were

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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Conditions Cults Does Emotional Father First First Place Gives Goddesses Gods Invented Just Life Mother Myths Notion Place Price Real Revival Satisfaction Silly Were Why Woman

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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

Topics: Avoid Blameless Easier Far Intercourse Lead Life Like Man Plague Sexual She Than Woman

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What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

~Angela Carter

Topics: Instead Man Many Marriage

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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.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Account Art Become Direct Enslave Evolved Highly Longer More Need Organization Ourselves Past Producing Question Sensations Things Us

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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

Topics: Ambition Appearance Cover Enterprises Even Himself Incurable Inflexible Most Passions Person Principle Where

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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.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Dream Hollywood Itself Mass Place Production Put States United United States Universal Where

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: May 7th, 1940

Died: February 16th, 1992

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