Angela Carter Quotes & Sayings

“Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.”

“Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.”

“A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.”

“Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.”

“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.”

“Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.”

“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.”

“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.”

“Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us.”

“What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?”