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"If you cry in the rain, only the sky will see your tears."
"All violations of essential privacy are brutalizing."
"Questions about her feelings, about what has been or might be going on in her soul are non of my business; they are the business of her conscience and belong to religion."
"It's quite enough to have a secret. Anything more would be greedy."
"Human beings are not meant to lose their anonymity and privacy."
"The most sacred thing is to be able to shut your own door."
"Among my most prized possessions are words that I have never spoken."
Explore more quotes by Angela Carter
"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."
"Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production."
"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 and you read it in your own terms."
"I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps."
"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."
"Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place."
"Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence."
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