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New Yorkers may think they're on some cutting edge, but that's not especially true. It is, however, the most exciting heterogeneous mess of a town I've ever seen.


Carter Burwell

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JIMMY CARTER I honestly believed I would make it. I had the desire. A lot of people have the ability, but they do...
JOE CARTER The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universal...
ANGELA CARTER America did not invent human rights. In a very real sense... human rights invented America.
JIMMY CARTER Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults...
ANGELA CARTER Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain ...
ANGELA CARTER There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for ...
ANGELA CARTER Everyone who has run knows that its most important value is in removing tension and allowing a relea...
JIMMY CARTER The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
ANGELA CARTER Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does no...
ANGELA CARTER Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggres...
ANGELA CARTER We've uncovered some embarrassing ancestors in the not-too-distant past. Some horse thieves, and som...
JIMMY CARTER