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Angela Carter Quotes

Angela Carter quotes

English Novelist, Writer May 7, 1940 – February 16, 1992

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Angela Carter quote: "I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's..."
I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass. 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. Angela Carter
I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me. Angela Carter
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
Your thin white face, chrie; 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
She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver. Angela Carter
In the dewy wood tinselled with bewildering moonlight, the bumbling, tumbling babies of the fairy creche trip over the hem of her dress, which is no more nor less than the margin of the wood itself; they stumble in the tangled grass as they play with the coneys, the quick brown fox-cubs, the russet fieldmice and the wee scraps of grey voles, blind velvet Mole and striped Brock with his questing snout - all the denizens of the woodland are her embroiderings, and the birds flutter round her... Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe."
I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe. Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in..."
Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers.... Angela Carter
I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one. Angela Carter
ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of the grand design Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of..."
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence. Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women,..."
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. Angela Carter
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
This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie! Angela Carter

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