Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.Angela Carter
I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
Angela Carter
Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value there is no other.
Angela Carter
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
Angela Carter
It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
Angela Carter
I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
Angela Carter
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Iain Duncan Smith
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For they, the philosophers, were considered teachers of right living, which is far more excellent, since to speak well belongs only to a few, but to live well belongs to all.
Lactantius