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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• 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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• What a joy it is to dance and sing!

  Angela Carter

  Dance, Joy

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• I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.

  Angela Carter

  Shadow, Universe

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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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• The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.

  Angela Carter

  Death, Time, Fiction

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

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

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  World, Fool, Illusion

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• A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems.

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  Girl, Light, House

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

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• Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.

  Angela Carter

  Men, Space, Propositions

  Angela Carter (1977). “The Passion of New Eve”, Harcourt

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• There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.

  Angela Carter

  Past, House, Different

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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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• Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

  Angela Carter

  Book, Reading, Writing

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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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• 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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• The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.

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  Running, Lying, Lambs

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Life, Art, Mean

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• In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

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  Taken, World, Commodity

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.32, Hachette UK

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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.

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  Sweet, Heart, Night

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• The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

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  Mother, Istanbul, Skylines

  "New Writing" edited by Malcolm Bradbury and Judy Cooke, 1992.

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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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• 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.

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  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

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

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