Angela Carter Quotes

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

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  Memories, Vices, Watches

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

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

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  Book, Writing, What Matters

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

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

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  Culture, Language And Power, Instruments

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

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

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  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.

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  Eggs, Literature, Salt

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

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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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• Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

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  White, Rose, Moonlight

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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.

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  Angel, Thinking, Culture

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

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• What a joy it is to dance and sing!

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  Dance, Joy

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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

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  Eye, House, Doe

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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.

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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• Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

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  Europe, Names, Nostalgia

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

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

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  Reality, Reason, Surrealism

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

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  Book, Reading, Writing

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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.

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  Literature, Pins, Hypothesis

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• It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

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  Sunshine, California, Contracts

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• The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.

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  Flesh, Taste, Carnivores

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

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• The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

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  Laughter, Children, Laughing

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

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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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• Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults gives woman emotional satisfaction, it does so at the price of obscuring the real conditions of life. This is why they were invented in the first place.

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  Life, God, Mother

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.7, Hachette UK

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

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  Parent, Anxiety, Soul

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

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• Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

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  Anticipation, Pleasure, Greater

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

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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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• To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?

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  Men, Two, Giving

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

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  Sky, Eternity, Lost

  "The Magic Toyshop".

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