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Famous Angela Carter Quotes
“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?”
“Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.”
“Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.”
“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”
“She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.”
“Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.”
“Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.”
“A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”
“Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.”
“The end of exile is the end of being.”
“A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.”
“If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?”
“Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.”
“Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.”