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Angela Carter

What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
— Angela Carter marriage
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
— Angela Carter life
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
— Angela Carter men
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 time
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
— Angela Carter world
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 writing
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
— Angela Carter science
Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.
— Angela Carter past
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.
— Angela Carter age
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
— Angela Carter world
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
— Angela Carter book
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 culture
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
— Angela Carter people
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 confidence
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
— Angela Carter art
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
— Angela Carter man
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
— Angela Carter will
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 art
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
— Angela Carter sun
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
— Angela Carter rules
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.
— Angela Carter night
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 love
Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.
— Angela Carter passion
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.
— Angela Carter love
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 hope
A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
— Angela Carter book
Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.
— Angela Carter time

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