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

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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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dad
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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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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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I fear vastly more a futile, incompetent old age than I do any form of death. – William Allen White

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You end up as you deserve. In old age you must put up with the face, the friends, the health, and the children you have earned. – Judith Viorst

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Were taught at such a young age that you can always be better and that youre never perfect and that youre never good enough. – Shawn Johnson

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Bombing Afghanistan back into the Stone Age was quite a favourite headline for some wobbly liberals. The slogan does all the work. But an instants thought shows that Afghanistan is being, if anything, bombed out of the Stone Age. – Christopher Hitchens

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Handmade presents are scary because they reveal that you have too much free time. – Doug Coupland

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The well-bred contradict other people. The wise contradict themselves. – Oscar Wilde

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In a country like France, so ancient, their history is full of outstanding people, so they carry a heavy weight on their back. Who could write in French after Proust or Flaubert? – Manuel Puig

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When I sing, I feel like when youre first in love. Its more than sex. Its that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but its gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills. – Janis Joplin

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