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A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

— Angela Carter Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992)

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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Wise Children (1991)

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

The Bridled Sweeties (1977)

My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992)

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.

Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (1998)

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Reading maketh a full man; conference a ready man; and writing an exact man.

Francis Bacon Meditationes sacræ (1597)

It is not in the books of the Philosophers, but in the religious symbolism of the Ancients, that we must look for the footprints of Science, and re-discover the Mysteries of Knowledge.

Albert Pike Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry (1871)

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

Ray Bradbury Fahrenheit 451 (1953)

People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading.

Logan Pearsall Smith Afterthoughts (1931)

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