Logo
Quote by Angela Carter
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax,

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. – Angela Carter

Other quotes by Angela Carter

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

Category:
dad
Author
Angela Carter
Read Quote

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

Category:
Experience
Author
Angela Carter
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
Age
category

I want to sell to people my own age, because thats the way I write songs. – John Mellencamp

Category:
Age

New needs need new techniques. And the modern artists have found new ways and new means of making their statements… the modern painter cannot express this age, the airplane, the atom bomb, the radio, in the old forms of the Renaissance or of any other past culture. – Jackson Pollock

Category:
Age

I think its your mental attitude. So many of us start dreading age in high school and thats a waste of a lovely life. Oh… Im 30, oh, Im 40, oh, 50. Make the most of it. – Betty White

Category:
Age

Ive watched my peers get better with age and hoped that would happen with me. – Bonnie Raitt

Category:
Age

Random Quotes

The world only goes round by misunderstanding. – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Understanding

When I go outside of L.A., no matter where it is, really anywhere I go, people will be stopping me or taking pictures or whatever it is. And its great. Its amazing. Im just lucky. – Michael Welch

Category:
amazing

It is better to emit a scream in the shape of a theory than to be entirely insensible to the jars and incongruities of life and take everything as it comes in a forlorn stupidity. – Robert Louis Stevenson, “Crabbed Age and Youth,” Virginibus Puerisque, 1881

Category:
Miscellaneous

Man is the only animal for whom his own existence is a problem which he has to solve. – Erich Fromm, Man for Himself, 1947

Category:
Humankind