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Angela Carter Quotes
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. - Angela Carter Quotes
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. - Angela Carter Quotes
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 Quotes
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. - Angela Carter Quotes
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 Quotes
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. - Angela Carter Quotes
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. - Angela Carter Quotes
I havent changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps. - Angela Carter Quotes
I think its 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 Quotes
I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they werent paying me for my acting, for Gods sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with. - Angela Carter Quotes
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? - Angela Carter Quotes
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. - Angela Carter Quotes
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. - Angela Carter Quotes
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. - Angela Carter Quotes
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague. - Angela Carter Quotes
It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. - Angela Carter Quotes
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing Id ever seen, that California sunshine. - Angela Carter Quotes
Its every womans tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, weve known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. - Angela Carter Quotes
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. - Angela Carter Quotes
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 doctors on the very day. - Angela Carter Quotes
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. - Angela Carter Quotes
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. - Angela Carter Quotes
Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. - Angela Carter Quotes
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 Quotes
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe. - Angela Carter Quotes
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 Quotes
That is what Im 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 Quotes
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. - Angela Carter Quotes
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 Quotes
There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until youre faced with somebody whose needs wont be put off. - Angela Carter Quotes
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