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I'm interested in the division that Judeo-Christianity has made between human nature and animal nature. None of the other great faiths in the world have got quite that division between us and them. None of the others has made this enormous division between birds and beasts who, as Darwin said, would have developed consciences if they'd had the chance, and us. I think it's one of the scars in Western Europe. 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.
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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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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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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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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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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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I always used to suffer a great deal if I let myself get too close to reality since the definitive world of the everyday with itshard edges and harsh light did not have enough resonance to echo the demands I made upon experience. It was as if I never experienced experience as experience. Living never lived up to the expectations I had of it--the Bovary syndrome.
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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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All artists, they say, are a little mad. This madness is, to a certain extent, a self-created myth designed to keep the generality away from the phenomenally close-knit creative community. Yet, in the world of the artists, the consciously eccentric are always respectful and admiring if those who have the courage to be genuinely a little mad.
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I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.
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The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
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If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs respectably married, then Ms means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
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The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.
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He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.
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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
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Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.
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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.
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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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Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick, match our rouge.... The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.
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We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
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Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves' birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.
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A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
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I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.
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Angela Carter
Born:
May 7, 1940
Died:
February 16, 1992
(aged 51)
Bio:
Angela Olive Carter-Pearce who published as Angela Carter was an English novelist, short story writer and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works.
Known for:
The Bloody Chamber (1982)
Nights at the Circus (1984)
Wise Children (1991)
The Magic Toyshop (1967)
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