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Angela Carter
English
Novelist
About the author
It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Passion
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Europe
#Name
#Nostalgia
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,
English
Novelist
#Life
#First
#Woman
#Mother
#Satisfaction
#Father
#Myths
#Silly
#Gods
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#World
#Illusion
#Fools
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Man
#Men
#Woman
#Women
In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#World
#Age
#Gain
#Order
#Credit
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Will
#Blame
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,
English
Novelist
#Acting
#God
#Night
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,
English
Novelist
#Culture
#Opinion
#Angels
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Now
#Years
#Heart
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Hollywood
#Production
#states
#United
#Dream
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#People
#Tragedy
#Comedy
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,
English
Novelist
#Art
#Past
#Question
#Sensations
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Innocence
#Soul
#Beginning
#Conscience
#Anxiety
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,
English
Novelist
#Father
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Day
#Argument
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,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Man
#Woman
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,
English
Novelist
#Want
#Talk
#People
#Work
#World
#Jobs
#Learning
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,
English
Novelist
#Love
#Words
#Suffering
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Man
#Marriage
#Prostitution
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Dance
#Joy
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,
English
Novelist
#Now
#Future
#Nothingness
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,
English
Novelist
#Experience
#Confidence
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Idea
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,
English
Novelist
#Strangers
#Dream
#Cinema
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
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,
English
Novelist
#World
#Experience
#History
#Reading
Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Satire
#Pornography
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Life
#Nothing
#Death
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Old
#Movies
#Vice
#Memories
#Nostalgia
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,
English
Novelist
#Ambition
#Appearance
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,
English
Novelist
#Time
#Tragedy
#Woman
#Age
#Mind
The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Angela Carter,
English
Novelist
#Now
#Public
#Rules
#Bed
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,
English
Novelist
#Time
#Day
#Family
#World
#War
#Magic
#Mother
#Talent
#World war
#Realism