Quote by Angela Carter
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a

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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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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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. – Angela Carter

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Sleep
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So if I have two pieces of cake, do I have twice as good an experience as the first piece of cake? One of the things Ive found in life is that the first piece of cake is the best. – David Frum

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Not to transmit an experience is to betray it. – Elie Wiesel

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I cant control what people think. Im not trying to manipulate peoples thoughts or sentiments. I write all the time. You have to experience life, make observations, and ask questions. Its machine-like how things are run now in hip-hop, and my ambitions are different. – Mos Def

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God is only a great imaginative experience. – David Herbert Lawrence

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Whoever I can go out every week and motivate to do better and to try to go after their dreams, Im up for that. – Robert Griffin III

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I never doubted that equal rights was the right direction. Most reforms, most problems are complicated. But to me there is nothing complicated about ordinary equality. – Alice Paul

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I was no chief and never had been, but because I had been more deeply wronged than others, this honor was conferred upon me, and I resolved to prove worthy of the trust. – Geronimo

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Human nature is above all things lazy. – Harriet Beecher Stowe

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