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"23 Angela Carter Quotes & Sayings

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Born: 7 May 1940. Died: 16 February 1992 | Novelist | Writer | Poet | Journalist |

Hope for the best, expect the worst.

Hope Best Expect Worst
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Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment

Love Desire Sustained Unfulfilment
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The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

The Child's Laughter Pure
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I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.

I Think Want Love
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Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
Is World Illusion Fools
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Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Anticipation Greater Part Pleasure
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I desire therefore I exist.

I Desire Therefore Exist
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Her beauty is a symptom of her disorder, of her soullessness.

Her Beauty Symptom Disorder
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I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

I Entirely Alone Shadow
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The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.

Invisible Only Unexplored Country
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I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

See Marvellous Shapes Random
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Comedy Tragedy Happens People
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His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

Main Principles Everything Possible
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Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.

Reason Produce Poetry Disorder
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A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.

Free Woman Unfree Society
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I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.

I Man Alive Knew
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Perhaps...I could not be content with mere contentment!

Perhaps I Content Mere
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What a joy it is to dance and sing!

What Joy Dance Sing
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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Book Container Idea Inside
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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

Anxiety Conscience Parent Soul
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Nothing Matter Life Death
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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.

Hopes Future Consign Hypothesis
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

Language Power Life Instrument
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Angela Carter Quotes & Sayings