A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. Angela Carter More Quotes by Angela Carter More Quotes From Angela Carter Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. Angela Carter vicesmemorieswatches Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. Angela Carter language-and-powerinstrumentsculture A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. Angela Carter what-matterswritingbook Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. Angela Carter new-yorkmensex I don't really think that writers, even great writers, are prophets, or sages, or Messiah-like figures; writing is a lonely, sedentary occupation and a touch of megalomania can be comforting around five on a November afternoon when you haven't seen anybody all day. Angela Carter lonelywritingthinking A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. Angela Carter salteggsliterature Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride. Angela Carter moonlightwhiterose 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 angelculturethinking What a joy it is to dance and sing! Angela Carter dancejoy 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 eyehousedoe 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 readingwritingbook Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe. Angela Carter nostalgianameseurope Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. Angela Carter surrealismreasonreality The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown. Angela Carter laughterlaughingchildren The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do. Angela Carter carnivorestasteflesh Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. Angela Carter readingwritingbook 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 hypothesispinsliterature It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine. Angela Carter sunshinecontractscalifornia In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from her by force Angela Carter commoditytakenworld Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure. Angela Carter pleasuregreateranticipation
