Angela Carter Quotes

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

  Angela Carter

  Dance, Joy

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• There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

  Angela Carter

  Acts Of Love, Chamber, Resemblance

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

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

  Angela Carter

  World, Fool, Illusion

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• And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Class, Wife

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

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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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• 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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• 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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• ...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.

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  Years, Long, One Day

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

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

  Angela Carter

  Shadow, Universe

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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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• Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

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  Men, Fire, Different

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

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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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• 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.

  Angela Carter

  Girl, Light, House

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

  Angela Carter

  Laughter, Children, Laughing

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

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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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• For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

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  Men, Our World, Imagination

  Angela Carter (2015). “Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales”, p.10, Hachette UK

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

  Angela Carter

  Book, Reading, Writing

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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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• 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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• 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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