"Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment."

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Source : Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

Angela Carter

#Love Is Quotes #Desire Quotes

“I say from my experience that, you know, I have to do my career, and, you know with us, our careers come first, and, you know, anybody we're with has to take a back seat to that and understand that these are our lives.”
“I take the literary or textual aspect really seriously and I really enjoy writing weird album titles. I did a PhD; I enjoy writing.”
“I just wanted to make a properly good movie, and not beg for the love of the fans.”
“I know that I could really kill for my daughter. I know because I'm living for her, so I'm fierce when it comes down to it. And I feel the same about my husband and my family. I'm just fiercely protective. It's like, that's my lair and nobody messes with my lair.”
“Without love our life is ... a ship without a rudder ... like a body without a soul.”
“It's all very simple: if you score one more than your opponent, you win.”
“Sometimes I wish that I was the weather, you'd bring me up in conversation forever. And when it rained, I'd be the talk of the day.”

Source : Song: Sucker
“Assassination is almost always unthinkable to moral, thinking men until after a holocaust has come and gone.”

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