Angela Carter Quotes

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

  Angela Carter

  Memories, Vices, Watches

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.10, Random House

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• What a joy it is to dance and sing!

  Angela Carter

  Dance, Joy

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• Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.

  Angela Carter

  Book, Reading, Writing

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

  Angela Carter

  Culture, Language And Power, Instruments

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Father, Facts

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

  Angela Carter

  Book, Writing, What Matters

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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

  Angela Carter

  World, Fool, Illusion

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• Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

  Angela Carter

  Sex, New York, Men

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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

  Angela Carter

  Eggs, Literature, Salt

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky.

  Angela Carter

  Sky, Eternity, Lost

  "The Magic Toyshop".

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• What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

  Angela Carter

  Daughter, Philanthropy, Rich

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

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• Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.

  Angela Carter

  Home, Heart, Home Is Where The Heart Is

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Art, Mean

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• His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.

  Angela Carter

  Sweet, Heart, Night

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• I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

  Angela Carter

  Angel, Thinking, Culture

  "The Company of Angela Carter". "Marxism Today" Magazine, January 1985.

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• It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.

  Angela Carter

  Lovely, Mind, Tragedy

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• I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.

  Angela Carter

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

  Angela Carter

  Humanity, Rags, Scarecrow

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

  Angela Carter

  Love Is, Desire

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

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• A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

  Angela Carter

  Heart, Broken, Tragedy

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.153, Random House

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• Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.

  Angela Carter

  Parent, Anxiety, Soul

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

  Angela Carter

  Europe, Names, Nostalgia

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and that is very frightening. from "The Lady of the Haunted House

  Angela Carter

  Eye, House, Doe

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• To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

  Angela Carter

  Literature, Pins, Hypothesis

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• Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

  Angela Carter

  Anticipation, Pleasure, Greater

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

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