Quote by Angela Carter
Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy

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

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That is what Im looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world. – Angela Carter

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Learning
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The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder. – Angela Carter

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Prostitution
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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

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Experience
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Looking back, I think I was always musical. My dad was very musical, and I think my mom was musical. – Paul McCartney

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Look, Ive got incredible pride for my family. Ive absolutely fallen into that cliche of a dad who could just happily talk about my daughter endlessly. – Christian Bale

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I am an obsessive garage cleaner – my wife and the neighbors make fun of me. I remember that my father was the same way, and now when Im out there unearthing things in the garage, I realize I am becoming my dad! – Chris ODonnell

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There is too much fathering going on just now and there is no doubt about it fathers are depressing. – Gertrude Stein

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Listen to what you know instead of what you fear. – Richard Bach

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Without continual growth and progress, such words as improvement, achievement, and success have no meaning. – Benjamin Franklin

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Always bear in mind that your own resolution to succeed is more important than any other. – Abraham Lincoln

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The practice of patience toward one another, the overlooking of one anothers defects, and the bearing of one anothers burdens is the most elementary condition of all human and social activity in the family, in the professions, and in society. – Lawrence G. Lovasik

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