Quotes by Angela Carter

Angela Carter

Angela Carter

British author

Lived from: 1940 - 1992

Category: Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 7 may 1940 Died: 16 february 1992

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
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  • The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder.
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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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  • A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
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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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  • Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
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  • Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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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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  • I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
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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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  • I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.
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  • I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.
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  • If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
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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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  • 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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  • In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
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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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  • It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
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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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  • It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.
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What are the most famous quotes from Angela Carter?

The two most famous quotes from Angela Carter are:

  • "The whore is despised by the hypocritical world because she has made a realistic assessment of her assets and does not have to rely on fraud to make a living. In an area of human relations where fraud is regular practice between the sexes, her honesty is regarded with a mocking wonder."
  • "A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters."

When did Angela Carter live?

Angela Carter was born in 1940 and died in the year 1992.