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    Angela Carter

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    The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children. ↗


    — Angela Carter

    #love

    I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he would not have been able to get away from me. ↗


    — Angela Carter

    #angela-carter #japan

    Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through. ↗


    — Angela Carter

    #werewolves

    How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic? ↗


    — Angela Carter

    #angela-carter #japan

    Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride. ↗


    — Angela Carter

    #bride #majestic #beauty

    Marianne had sharp, cold eyes and she was spiteful but her father loved her. ↗


    — Angela Carter

    #love

    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

    #dream #life #reality #sleeping #waking

    Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say. ↗


    — Angela Carter

    #aging #maturity #age

    In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of. ↗


    — Angela Carter

    #disposed #man #men #men and women #mythic

    In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. ↗


    — Angela Carter

    #authentic #credit #gain #hoax #miracle






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    In 1977 Carter married Mark Pearce with whom Angela Carter had one son. She was actively involved in both film adaptations her screenplays are publiAngela Carterd in the collected dramatic writings The Curious Room together with her radio scripts a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and other works. Works as author


    Works on Angela Carter

    Milne Andrew (2006) The Bloody Chamber d'Angela Carter Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit Université
    Milne Andrew (2007) Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber: A Reader's Guide Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit Université
    Dimovitz Scott A.

    Angela Carter (7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992) was an English novelist 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".

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