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• I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day.

  Angela Carter

  Lonely, Writing, Thinking

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

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• A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Father, Facts

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• Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.

  Angela Carter

  Europe, Names, Nostalgia

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

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• The end of all stories, even if the writer forebears to mention it, is death, which is where time stops short. Sheherezade knew this, which is why she kept on spinning another story out of the bowels of the last one, never coming to a point where she could say: "This is the end." Because it would have been.

  Angela Carter

  Death, Time, Fiction

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

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• And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Class, Wife

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

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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.

  Angela Carter

  Sunshine, California, Contracts

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• To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?

  Angela Carter

  Men, Two, Giving

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• The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

  Angela Carter

  Laughter, Children, Laughing

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

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• His touch both consoles and devastates me; I feel my heart pulse, then wither, naked as a stone on the roaring mattress while the lovely, moony night slides through the window to dapple the flanks of this innocent who makes cages to keep the sweet birds in. Eat me, drink me; thirsty, cankered, goblin-ridden, I go back and back to him to have his fingers strip the tattered skin away and clothe me in his dress of water, this garment that drenches me, its slithering odour, its capacity for drowning.

  Angela Carter

  Sweet, Heart, Night

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• The kind of power mothers have is enormous.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, Istanbul, Skylines

  "New Writing" edited by Malcolm Bradbury and Judy Cooke, 1992.

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• Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.

  Angela Carter

  Love Is, Desire

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

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• 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

  Angela Carter

  Eye, House, Doe

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• Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!

  Angela Carter

  Men, Fire, Different

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

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• He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.

  Angela Carter

  Men, Lovely, Forgiving

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.123, Random House

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• Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.

  Angela Carter

  Satire, Pornography, Humans

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• ...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.

  Angela Carter

  Years, Long, One Day

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

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• Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.

  Angela Carter

  Life, Art, Mean

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• If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.

  Angela Carter

  Respect, Women, Mean

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• 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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• 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

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• Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.

  Angela Carter

  Men, Space, Propositions

  Angela Carter (1977). “The Passion of New Eve”, Harcourt

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

  Angela Carter

  Able, Barbarians, Blame

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• Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.

  Angela Carter

  Reality, Reason, Surrealism

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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.

  Angela Carter

  Running, Lying, Lambs

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

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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

  Two, Rubies, Chokers

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

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