English - Novelist | May 7, 1940 - February 16, 1992
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Angela Carter
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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.
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What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.
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That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.
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