They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on.

Quote by Angela Carter

Topics: Dancing Quotes

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

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

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.

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator....

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator....

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same...

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same...

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...

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...

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...

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

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...

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and...

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and...

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...

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?

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

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

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman...

In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman...

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

What a joy it is to dance and sing!

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...

This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of...

This dance was the dance of death. [The clowns] danced it for the wretched of...

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might...

When you do dance, I wish you a wave o' the sea, that you might...

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play

The girl who can't dance says the band can't play