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Angela Carter quotes: Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason. Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.
Angela Carter quotes: Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment. Love is desire sustained by unfulfilment.
Angela Carter quotes: And I could believe that it has been the same with him; he was alive from the desire of the woods. And I could believe that it has been the same with him; he was alive from the desire of the woods.
Angela Carter quotes: There are limits to the power of laughter and though I may hint at them from time to time, I do not propose to step over them. There are limits to the power of laughter and though I may hint at them from time to time, I do not propose to step over them.
Angela Carter quotes: Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves. Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.
Angela Carter quotes: The end of exile is the end of being. The end of exile is the end of being.
Angela Carter quotes: And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat. And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.
Angela Carter quotes: Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
Angela Carter quotes: A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Angela Carter quotes: Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common. Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
Angela Carter quotes: In this country you do not need to think, but only to look, and soon you think you understand everything. In this country you do not need to think, but only to look, and soon you think you understand everything.
Angela Carter quotes: The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers. The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.
Angela Carter quotes: The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break. The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break.
Angela Carter quotes: ...a great future behind him, already ...a great future behind him, already
Angela Carter quotes: A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster. A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.
Angela Carter quotes: Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death. Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
Angela Carter quotes: Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you. Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.
Angela Carter quotes: Love is the synthesis of dream and actuality; love is the only matrix of the unprecedented; love is the tree which buds lovers like roses. Love is the synthesis of dream and actuality; love is the only matrix of the unprecedented; love is the tree which buds lovers like roses.
Angela Carter quotes: There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms. There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.
Angela Carter quotes: The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world. The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.
Angela Carter quotes: He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised. He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.
Angela Carter quotes: We keep the wolves outside by living well. We keep the wolves outside by living well.
Angela Carter quotes: Even if it is the dream made flesh, the real, once it becomes real, can be no more than real. Even if it is the dream made flesh, the real, once it becomes real, can be no more than real.
Angela Carter quotes: See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf. See! sweet and sound she sleeps in granny's bed, between the paws of the tender wolf.
Angela Carter quotes: Hope for the best, expect the worst. Hope for the best, expect the worst.
Angela Carter quotes: Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant. Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant.
Angela Carter quotes: Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody. Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
Angela Carter quotes: Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge ... The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle. Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge ... The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.
Angela Carter quotes: A day without an argument is like an egg without salt. A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
Angela Carter quotes: How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic? How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
Angela Carter quotes: There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off. There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.
Angela Carter quotes: Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
Angela Carter quotes: They say there's an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf the minute you rub it on. They say there's an ointment the Devil gives you that turns you into a wolf the minute you rub it on.
Angela Carter quotes: The air shuddered with the beginning of absence. The air shuddered with the beginning of absence.
Angela Carter quotes: His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat. His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.
Angela Carter quotes: The kind of power mothers have is enormous. The kind of power mothers have is enormous.
Angela Carter quotes: The earth turned on the pivot of her mouth. The earth turned on the pivot of her mouth.
Angela Carter quotes: I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world. I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world.
Angela Carter quotes: Destruction is only another aspect of being. Destruction is only another aspect of being.
Angela Carter quotes: She walked in technicolor. She walked in technicolor.
Angela Carter quotes: I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off. I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.
Angela Carter quotes: She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds. She was feeling supernatural tonight. She wanted to EAT diamonds.
Angela Carter quotes: She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man's land between life and death, sleeping and waking. She has the mysterious solitude of ambiguous states; she hovers in a no-man's land between life and death, sleeping and waking.
Angela Carter quotes: The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden. The perennial sadness of a girl who is both death and the maiden.
Angela Carter quotes: What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
Angela Carter quotes: I'm sufficient of a doctrinaire to believe that the novel is the product of a leisured class. Actually. I'm sufficient of a doctrinaire to believe that the novel is the product of a leisured class. Actually.
Angela Carter quotes: ordered me a sky from a florist ordered me a sky from a florist
Angela Carter quotes: Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been
Angela Carter quotes: The lilies i always associate with him; that are white. And stain you. The lilies i always associate with him; that are white. And stain you.
Angela Carter quotes: And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape. And from the coffin of your madness there is no escape.
Angela Carter quotes: Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride. Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.
Angela Carter quotes: Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn. Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.
Angela Carter quotes: Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast. Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.
Angela Carter quotes: When the sun goes down, it is very cold and then I easily start crying because the winter moon pierces my heartThe Smile of Winter When the sun goes down, it is very cold and then I easily start crying because the winter moon pierces my heart

The Smile of Winter
Angela Carter quotes: Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined. Degredation is the subtlest drug, the most insinuating. But they could do nothing to me I had not already imagined.
Angela Carter quotes: This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie! This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie!
Angela Carter quotes: My father lost me to the Beast at cards My father lost me to the Beast at cards
Angela Carter quotes: My fays shall lullaby you as we cuddle up on my mattress of dandelion down. My fays shall lullaby you as we cuddle up on my mattress of dandelion down.
Angela Carter quotes: I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again. I was the only man alive who knew time had begun again.
Angela Carter quotes: Snowlight, moonlight, a confusion of paw-prints. Snowlight, moonlight, a confusion of paw-prints.
Angela Carter quotes: Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does. Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.
Angela Carter quotes: There are some eyes that can eat you. There are some eyes that can eat you.
Angela Carter quotes: The harder the bargain men must strike with nature to survive, the more rules they're likely to have amongst themselves too keep them all in order The harder the bargain men must strike with nature to survive, the more rules they're likely to have amongst themselves too keep them all in order
Angela Carter quotes: All white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be seen or touched All white with snow as if under dustsheets, as if laid away eternally as soon as brought back from the shop, never to be seen or touched
Angela Carter quotes: As if your essence were hung up in a closet like a dress too good to be worn and you were reduced to going out in only your appearance. As if your essence were hung up in a closet like a dress too good to be worn and you were reduced to going out in only your appearance.
Angela Carter quotes: A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast. A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
Angela Carter quotes: What a joy it is to dance and sing! What a joy it is to dance and sing!
Angela Carter quotes: Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe. Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
Angela Carter quotes: The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing. The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.
Angela Carter quotes: The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.
Angela Carter quotes: I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one. I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.
Angela Carter quotes: Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed. Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.
Angela Carter quotes: But needs must when the devil drives. But needs must when the devil drives.
Angela Carter quotes: I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass. I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.
Angela Carter quotes: We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity. We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
Angela Carter quotes: Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her. Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her.
Angela Carter quotes: Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome. Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Angela Carter quotes: Have you ever stared stark failure in the face, young man? The trick is, to outstare it! Have you ever stared stark failure in the face, young man? The trick is, to outstare it!
Angela Carter quotes: Hollywood ... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. Hollywood ... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
Angela Carter quotes: Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive. Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.
Angela Carter quotes: Despair is the constant companion of the clown. Despair is the constant companion of the clown.
Angela Carter quotes: Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well. Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.
Angela Carter quotes: I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe. I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.
Angela Carter quotes: The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there. The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.
Angela Carter quotes: Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Angela Carter quotes: I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it. I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.
Angela Carter quotes: Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation. Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.
Angela Carter quotes: I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire. I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.
Angela Carter quotes: The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown. The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
Angela Carter quotes: For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody. For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.
Angela Carter quotes: His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist. His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.
Angela Carter quotes: Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.
Angela Carter quotes: She goes out at night more often now; the landscape assembles itself about her, she informs it with her presence. She is its significance. She goes out at night more often now; the landscape assembles itself about her, she informs it with her presence. She is its significance.
Angela Carter quotes: Time was his servant, too; it would trap me, here, in a night that would last until he came back to me, like a black sun on a hopeless morning. Time was his servant, too; it would trap me, here, in a night that would last until he came back to me, like a black sun on a hopeless morning.
Angela Carter quotes: Ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of the grand design Ruin had been the original blueprint and men and women had lived here only in a necessary but intermediate stage of the execution of the grand design
Angela Carter quotes: I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how. I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.
Angela Carter quotes: I can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. They share the same quality of wishful thinking. I can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. They share the same quality of wishful thinking.
Angela Carter quotes: If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink. If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Angela Carter quotes: I am happy only in that I am a monster. I am happy only in that I am a monster.
Angela Carter quotes: 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 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

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