Angela Carter quotes - page 2

For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody. (Angela Carter)
The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world. View quote
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I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off. View quote
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Hope for the best, expect the worst. View quote
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She stood lost in eternity wearing a crazy dress, watching the immense sky. View quote
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My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis. View quote
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The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do. View quote
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. View quote
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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. View quote
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There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer. View quote
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What a joy it is to dance and sing! (Angela Carter)
I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe. View quote
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Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure. View quote
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. View quote
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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. View quote
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Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe. View quote
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We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things? View quote
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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)
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine. View quote
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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. View quote
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Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. View quote
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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. View quote
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