“What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?”
— Angela Carter
Author: Angela Carter
Category: marriage
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Reading a book is like re-writing it
“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.”
— Angela Carter
Author: Angela Carter
Category: history
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Reading a book is like re-writing it
“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.”
— Angela Carter
Author: Angela Carter
Category: experience
Tags: experience, Angela Carter
Aeneas carried his aged father on his
“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.”
— Angela Carter
Author: Angela Carter
Category: dad
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Nothing is a matter of life and
“Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.”
— Angela Carter
Author: Angela Carter
Category: death
Tags: death, Angela Carter