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

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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What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? – Angela Carter

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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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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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