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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Comedy Happens Other People Tragedy

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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Bed Confrontation Dinner Dinner Table Formal Governed Now Public Rules Same Table

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The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Clever Confidence Experience Female Human Human Experience Notion Trick

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Between Man Men Men And Women Mythic Proposes Relations Woman Women

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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

Topics: Align Angels Culture High Higher Instead Opinion Our Ourselves Scars Think Too I Think

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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

Topics: Anything Book Bring Experience History Like Novel Own Read Reading Terms World You Your Yourself

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What a joy it is to dance and sing!

~Angela Carter

Topics: Dance Joy Sing

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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Anxiety Beginning Compatible Conscience Innocence Parent Soul Which

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I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Adjectives Changed Heart Kinder Less Much Now Over Perhaps Use Years

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If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

~Angela Carter

Topics: Able Bad Bad Things Barbarians Blame Destroyed Then Things Who Will

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: May 7th, 1940

Died: February 16th, 1992

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