Angela Carter quotes - page 2

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:

For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody. (Angela Carter)

The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.

Angela Carter

I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.

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Hope for the best, expect the worst.

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

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My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.

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

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

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What a joy it is to dance and sing! (Angela Carter)

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

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Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

Angela Carter

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

Angela Carter

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

Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

Angela Carter

We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

Angela Carter

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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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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If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?

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His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat. (Angela Carter)

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

Angela Carter

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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Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

Angela Carter

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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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