Angela Carter Quotes About Literature

Quotes about: Literature

• 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.

• 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

• 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

  Literature, Pins, Hypothesis

• Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

  Angela Carter

  Funny, Humor, People

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.213, Random House

• 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.

  Angela Carter

  Lovely, Mind, Tragedy

• 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.

  Angela Carter

  Clever, Experience, Literature

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.10, Hachette UK

• 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.

  Angela Carter

  Jobs, Real, Nurse

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

  Angela Carter

  Life And Death, Literature, Matter

• 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.

  Angela Carter

  Men, Our World, Imagination

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

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

  Angela Carter

  Dream, Hollywood, United States

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

• In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.

  Angela Carter

  Order, Miracle, Age

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

• 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.

  Angela Carter

  Dream, Dark, Greek

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

• 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.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, War, Magic Realism

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

• It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

  Angela Carter

  Passion, Literature, Objects

  "Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories".

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

  Angela Carter

  Parent, Anxiety, Soul

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

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