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Wise Children QUOTES

Wise Children QUOTES

1 " The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

2 " ...a great future behind him, already "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

3 " Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

4 " A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

5 " ...as if Hollywood were the name of the enchanted forest where you loose yourself and find yourself, again; the wood that changes you; the wood where you go mad; the wood where the shadows life longer than you do. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

6 " Sorridi in pubblico, piangi in pubblico, vivi in pubblico, crepa in pubblico. C'era, sui loro visi, un'emozione schietta, atipica per gli attori. Stasera erano al telegiornale. E' la cosa peggiore veder soffrire i propri figli. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

7 " La commedia è una tragedia che capita agli altri. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

8 " [...] certo, una madre è sempre una madre, perché è un fatto biologico, mentre un padre è una festa mobile. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

9 " It doesn't matter if what happens next spoils everything; the anticipation itself is always pure. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

10 " What joy it is to dance and sing! "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

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

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

12 " Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

13 " Hope for the best, expect the worst. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

14 " Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

15 " He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

16 " Wars are facts we cannot fuck away, Perry; nor laugh away, either. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children

17 " They look around the world and think: ‘There must be something better!’ But there isn’t. Sorry, chum. This is it. What you see is what you get. Only the here and now. "

― Angela Carter , Wise Children