Angela Carter Quotes

Angela Carter — English Novelist born on May 07, 1940, died on February 16, 1992

Angela Olive Carter-Pearce who published as Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize... (wikipedia)

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

Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

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.

You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In other words, I knew him only in relation to myself.

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

Angela Carter Quotes

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