Angela Carter - Man Quotes

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Angela Carter
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.

Angela Carter
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

Angela Carter
Never stray from the path, never eat a windfall apple and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet in the middle.

Angela Carter
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

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Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

Angela Carter
Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.

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Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

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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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