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It's obvious throughout secular and church history that significant legislation follows only after dramatic action.


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ANGELA CARTER I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
ANGELA CARTER Remember that not to be happy is not to be grateful.
ELIZABETH CARTER Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solst...
ANGELA CARTER A liberal is a man who is willing to spend somebody else's money.
CARTER GLASS The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her a...
ANGELA CARTER In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
ANGELA CARTER There are no black conservatives. Oh, there are neoconservatives with black skin, but they lack any ...
STEPHEN CARTER