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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man p

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

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Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. – Angela Carter

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Pornography
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Angela Carter
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Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. – Angela Carter

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Holidays
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Angela Carter
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Love :: Relationships
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People must be taken as they are, and we should never try make them or ourselves better by quarreling with them. – Edmund Burke

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Love :: Relationships

Two may talk together under the same roof for many years, yet never really meet; and two others at first speech are old friends. – Mary Catherwood

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Love :: Relationships

The easiest kind of relationship is with ten thousand people, the hardest is with one. – Joan Baez

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Love :: Relationships

It is not time or opportunity that is to determine intimacy;– it is disposition alone. Seven years would be insufficient to make some people acquainted with each other, and seven days are more than enough for others. – Jane Austen

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Love :: Relationships

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My father belongs to the generation that fought the war in the 1940s. When I was a kid my father told me stories – not so many, but it meant a lot to me. I wanted to know what happened then, to my fathers generation. Its a kind of inheritance, the memory of it. – Haruki Murakami

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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing. – Kate Smith

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You have many years ahead of you to create the dreams that we cant even imagine dreaming. You have done more for the collective unconscious of this planet than you will ever know. – Steven Spielberg

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