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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: "In this country you do not need to think, but only to look,..."
In this country you do not need to think, but only to look, and soon you think you understand everything. Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?"
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? Angela Carter
To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a... Angela Carter
Do you not feel’, said the Doctor in his very soft but still crisp-edged voice, ‘that invisible presences have more reality than visible ones? They exert more influence upon us. They make us cry more easily. Angela Carter
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
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
Angela Carter quote: "What a joy it is to dance and sing!"
What a joy it is to dance and sing! Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "The lamb must learn to run with the tigers."
The lamb must learn to run with the tigers. Angela Carter
His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat. Angela Carter
Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you. Angela Carter
I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I...I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what? Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky..."
She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky... Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what..."
A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. Angela Carter
Angela Carter quote: "They say there's an ointment the Devil gives you that turns..."
They say there's an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf the minute you rub it on. Angela Carter
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

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