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Letter "A" » Angela Carter Quotes
«Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
birthday, slink, slinking, slinks, solstice, werewolf, werewolves
«We do not go to bed in single pairs; even if we choose not to refer to them, we still drag there with us the cultural impedimenta of our social class, our parents lives, our bank balances, our sexual and emotional expectations, our whole biographies / all the bits and pieces of our unique existences.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
balances, biographies, bits, bits and pieces, cultural, drag, go to bed, impedimenta, pairs, refer, single bed, social class, social classes
«There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer to the question: ''Where was I before I was born'.' In the beginning was what? Perhaps, in the beginning, there was a curious room, a room like this one, crammed with wonders; and now the room and all it contains are forbidden you, although it was made just for you, had been prepared for you since time began, and you will spend all your life trying to remember it.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
at bottom, cram, crammed, cramming, forbidden, in the beginning, like this, quest, quest for, spend-all, The Search, this one
«Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
Britain, growth industry, minor, of late, sexy, The Twilight, twentieth, twentieth century, twilight, underwear
«Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
contemporary, contemporary history, encompass, encompassed, encompasses, encompassing, ideology, Makers, pornographer, pornographers, pornography, pretensions, satire, Satires
«Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| About:
Reality,
Sanity,
Surrealism
| Keywords:
exposed, overdose, unwittingly
«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.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
cults, Father-God, goddesses, gods and goddesses, in the first place, myths, obscuring, revival, revivals
«Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bluster, blustering, braid, coat hanger, decorative, dress uniform, Eskimo, Eskimos, guardsman, guardsmen, hanger, icon, iconic, icons, inside information, magnificent, ostensibly, parasol, secularized, tactile
«Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.»
«In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.»
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