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

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  • Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
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  • Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.
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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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  • My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
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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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  • Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
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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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  • 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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  • Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
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  • 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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  • 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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  • The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
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  • The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a final revenge on Islam. I was so scared I had to crouch in the bottom of the boat when I saw it.
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  • The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.
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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.
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  • 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.
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  • What a joy it is to dance and sing!
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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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  • You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.
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