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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Age Authentic Credit Gain Hoax Miracle Must Order Secular World

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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

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Topics: Book Bottle Container Idea Inside Like Matters Simply

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A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

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Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Another Europe Name Nostalgia Soon Will

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It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

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Topics: Better Never Object Passion Perhaps Than Valued

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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

Topics: After Age Certain Certain Age Every Female Impersonator Known Like Looks Lovely Mind Our Our Time She Some Time Tragedy Woman You

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Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Ancient Ancient Greeks Cinema Dark Dream Dreaming Gather Greeks Like Mysteries Participating Same Sit Strangers Together Unison Used

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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

Topics: Contend Future Here Hopes Hypothesis Must Nothingness Now Pin Say Those Which Your

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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.

~Angela Carter

Topics: Aged Back Carried Even Father His Known Like Never Perhaps Ruins Them Whether

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It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

~Angela Carter

Topics: California Contract Democratic Ever Everyone Had Most Seen Sunshine Thing Whether

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Novelist

Born: May 7th, 1940

Died: February 16th, 1992

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