Angela Carter Short Quotes

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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

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I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.

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The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

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Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

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Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

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A broken heart is never a tragedy. Only untimely death is a tragedy.

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The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.

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Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.

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The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?

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Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.

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Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

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Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

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What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

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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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We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.

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How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?

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There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.

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Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

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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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Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart.

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A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.

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In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.

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I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.

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A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.

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I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.

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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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I think the adjective 'post-modernist' really means 'mannerist'. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

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For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.

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