Inspirational Quotes, Motivational Sayings, and Wise Words for Daily Inspiration

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Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

Angela Carter's Popular Quotes

And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement,…

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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 …

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

- Angela Carter

She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very f…

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What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

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In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

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How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

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There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

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I desire therefore I exist.

- Angela Carter