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Angela Carter Quotes

Angela Carter quotes

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

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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. Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman."
Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman. Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the..."
Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but..."
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different! Angela Carter
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. Angela Carter
It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all. I had never been so absolutely the mysterious other. I had become a kind of phoenix, a fabulous beast; I was an outlandish jewel. Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again."
I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again. Angela Carter
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
She stayed beside me until I slept, waveringly, brilliantly, hooded in diaphanous scarlet, and occasionally she left an imperative written in lipstick on my dusty windowpane. BE AMOROUS! she exhorted one night and, another night, BE MYSTERIOUS! Some nights later, she scribbled: WHEN YOU BEGIN TO THINK, YOU LOSE THE POINT. Angela Carter
Below me, in spreading, concentric circles, like those a fish makes when it rises in still water, spun round the lower tiers; above me arched the black sky pierced by the gas jets of the stars. Angela Carter
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 Angela Carter
Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. Angela Carter
You were the living image of the entire Platonic shadow show, an illusion that could fill my emptiness with marvellous, imaginary things as long as, just as long as, the movie lasted, and then all would all vanish. Angela Carter
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
Angela Carter quote: "What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the..."
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist? Angela Carter

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