Angela Carter Quotes & Sayings (Page 2)

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Angela Carter quotes and sayings page 2 (deceased novelist born on May 7, 1940). Here's quote # 11 through 20 out of the 33 we have for her.

Angela Carter Quotes
“In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.”
Angela Carter Quotes
“A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”
Angela Carter Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”
Angela Carter Quotes
“The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.”
Angela Carter Quotes
“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.”
Angela Carter Quotes
“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 Quotes
“Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.”
Angela Carter Quotes
“Where ambition can cover its enterprises, even to the person himself, under the appearance of principle, it is the most incurable and inflexible of passions.”
“I was sitting in the looping studio late one night, and I had this epiphany that they weren't paying me for my acting, for God's sake, but to own me. And from then on, it became clear and an awful lot easier to deal with.”

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