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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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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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. – Angela Carter

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Morals
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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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Working with big actors and realising that they were just normal people whove got an incredible talent was just a great experience. – Tom Felton

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A lot of why I do something is just the novelty of the experience. – Edward Norton

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We choose our joys and sorrows long before we experience them. – Khalil Gibran

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Man tells his aspiration in his God but in his demon he shows his depth of experience. – Margaret Fuller

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Betrayal is the only truth that sticks. – Arthur Miller

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