English - Novelist | May 7, 1940 - February 16, 1992
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
Angela Carter
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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.
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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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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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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.
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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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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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.
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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.
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What a joy it is to dance and sing!
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I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
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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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