Angela Carter Quotes - Page 6

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• Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

  Angela Carter

  Hope, Eye, Men

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

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• Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

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  Change, Historical, Enemy

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• Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.

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  Dad, Father, Aeneas

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

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• In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

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  Order, Miracle, Age

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

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• Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.

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  Running, Men, Spy

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

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• I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

  Angela Carter

  Heart, Years, Adjectives

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

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• And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.

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  Beautiful, Hair, Water

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

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• Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they’re only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn’t it? Everything else is artful.

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  Lonely, Character, Mirrors

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

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• He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in the condition of a work of art, for he wanted to make this experience a masterpiece of experience which absolutely transcended the everyday. And this would annihilate the effects of the cruel drug, boredom, to which he was addicted although, perhaps, the element of boredom which is implicit in an affair so isolated from the real world was its principle appeal for him.

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  Art, Real, Order

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

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• What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded. 'The firing squad.' 'That's not the whole truth. Try again.' 'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness. 'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.' He was silent for several minutes. 'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.' 'Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?

  Angela Carter

  Country, Simple, Squad

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• When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire. I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.

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  Eye, Mirrors, Sight

  Angela Carter (2012). “The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories”, p.6, Random House

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• The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children.

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  Girl, Children, Lovely

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• That is what I'm looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

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  Jobs, Real, Nurse

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• You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish.

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  Long, Shadow, Emptiness

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

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• The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

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  Sleep, Bed, Tables

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• I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

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  Fun, Book, Mean

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• we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.

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  May, Determined, Blame

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

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• One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.

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  Moon, Night, Sight

  Angela Carter (1971). “Love: a novel”

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• He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.

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  Dolls, Details, Language

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

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• Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.

  Angela Carter

  White, Promise, Faces

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• He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.

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  Revenge, Thinking, Language

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

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• There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

  Angela Carter

  Knowledge, Needs, Brushes

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• For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.

  Angela Carter

  Years, Hours, Mets

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

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