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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous. – 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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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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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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It is a tribute to the peculiar horror of contemporary life that it makes the worst features of earlier times — the stupefaction of the masses, the obsessed and driven lives of the bourgeoisie — seem attractive by comparison. – Christopher Lasch

When you automate an industry you modernize it; when you automate a life you primitivize it. – Eric Hoffer

Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. – Le Corbusier

In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation. – Guy Debord

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Learning is a tunnel experience that makes us think more broadly. – Anna Deavere Smith

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When you have a baby, love is automatic, when you get married, love is earned. – Marie Osmond

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Good breeding, a union of kindness and independence. – Ralph Waldo Emerson