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Angela Carter 43
English novelist 1940–1992Related quotes
“We're a government that believes in everybody having the illusion of free will.”
Source: The Wanting Seed
1:73
"Quotes", Late Notebooks, 1982–1990: Architecture of the Spiritual World (2002)
“For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion.”
Introduction to Ward's English Poets (1880)
Context: For poetry the idea is everything; the rest is a world of illusion, of divine illusion. Poetry attaches its emotion to the idea; the idea is the fact. The strongest part of our religion today is its unconscious poetry.
“There was a time when a fool and his money were soon parted, but now it happens to everybody.”
As quoted in The Stevenson Wit (1965) edited by Bill Adler