Angela Carter quotes

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. (Angela Carter)
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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. View quote
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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. View quote
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Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism. View quote
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The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown. View quote
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I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how. (Angela Carter)
There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms. View quote
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Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. View quote
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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. View quote
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A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. View quote
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Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment. View quote
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The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh? View quote
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I desire therefore I exist. View quote
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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! View quote
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Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves. View quote
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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)
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. View quote
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They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead end of night. View quote
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I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire. View quote
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Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been. View quote
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