All Angela Carter Quotes
It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
Angela Carter
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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.
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My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
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If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
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What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
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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.
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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.
Angela Carter
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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.
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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.
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I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
Angela Carter
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