Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

Quote by Angela Carter

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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation

Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not...

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not...

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion...

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion...

I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.

I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come...

Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come...

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is...

Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is...

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so...

Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so...

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct...

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct...

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany...

I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany...

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his...

Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his...

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

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

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with...

As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with...

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high...

I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high...

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second...

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second...

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order...

In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order...

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.

Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.