Angela Carter quotes

Angela Carter was an English novelist, short story writer, and journalist, acclaimed for her imaginative and feminist works. Her writing is celebrated for blending magical realism with sharp social commentary. She influenced a generation of writers with her originality and bold narrative style. Here are 88 of her quotes:

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. (Angela Carter)

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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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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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

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

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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.

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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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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

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

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I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how. (Angela Carter)

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

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

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

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Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

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The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

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I desire therefore I exist.

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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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Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.

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He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive. (Angela Carter)

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

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They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night.

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I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.

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Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been.

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Angela Carter

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Occupation: English Novelist
Born: May 7, 1940
Died: February 16, 1992
Quotes count: 88
Wikipedia: Angela Carter

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