Quote by Angela Carter
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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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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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Sleep
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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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Pornography
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Modern, Modernism
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Our own epoch is determining, day by day, its own style. Our eyes, unhappily, are unable yet to discern it. – Le Corbusier

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revolutionary avant-gardism. – Terry Eagleton

You are born modern, you do not become so. – Jean Baudrillard

A modern man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice. – Elias Canetti

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Never neglect an opportunity to play leap-frog; it is the best of all games, and, unlike the terribly serious and conscientious pastimes of modern youth, will never become professionalized. – Herbert Beerbohm Tree, as quoted by Hesketh Pearson (“Sir Herbert Tree,” Modern

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All this technology for connection and what we really only know more about is how anonymous we are in the grand scheme of things. – Heather Donahue

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I associate going to an airport with work because I travel so much with my job. So when I have a few days free from work, I tend to stay at home. – Evelyn Glennie

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Fellowship with God means warfare with the world. – Charles E. Fuller

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