English - Novelist | May 7, 1940 - February 16, 1992
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
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Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
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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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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
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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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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.
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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.
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My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
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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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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.
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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.
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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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