Angela Carter Quotes

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

  Angela Carter

  Culture, Language And Power, Instruments

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

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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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  Memories, Vices, Watches

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.10, Random House

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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.

  Angela Carter

  Book, Reading, Writing

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

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  World, Fool, Illusion

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• What a joy it is to dance and sing!

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  Dance, Joy

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

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  Acts Of Love, Chamber, Resemblance

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

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

  Angela Carter

  Past, House, Different

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• Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.

  Angela Carter

  Vices, Nostalgia

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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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  Life, God, Mother

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.7, Hachette UK

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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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  Sex, New York, Men

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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

  Angela Carter

  Shadow, Universe

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• I desire therefore I exist.

  Angela Carter

  Desire

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• A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

  Angela Carter

  Book, Writing, What Matters

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.

  Angela Carter

  White, Rose, Moonlight

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• In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force

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  Taken, World, Commodity

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.32, Hachette UK

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

  Angela Carter

  Eggs, Literature, Salt

  Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

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• Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.

  Angela Carter

  Anticipation, Pleasure, Greater

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

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• For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.

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  Men, Our World, Imagination

  Angela Carter (2015). “Angela Carter's Book Of Fairy Tales”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems.

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  Girl, Light, House

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

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• Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.

  Angela Carter

  Home, Heart, Home Is Where The Heart Is

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

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

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  Humanity, Rags, Scarecrow

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

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

  Angela Carter

  Sky, Eternity, Lost

  "The Magic Toyshop".

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• A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

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  Heart, Broken, Tragedy

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.153, Random House

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

  Angela Carter

  Book, Reading, Writing

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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.

  Angela Carter

  Angel, Thinking, Culture

  "The Company of Angela Carter". "Marxism Today" Magazine, January 1985.

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