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Angela Carter

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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.


— Angela Carter


#ancient greeks #cinema #dark #dream #dreaming

The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.


— Angela Carter


#confrontation #dinner #dinner table #formal #governed

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


#confidence #experience #female #human #human experience

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


#contend #future #here #hopes #hypothesis

What a joy it is to dance and sing!


— Angela Carter


#joy #sing

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


— Angela Carter


#man #many #marriage

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.


— Angela Carter


#appearance #cover #enterprises #even #himself

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


— Angela Carter


#fools #illusion #whole #world #yet

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.


— Angela Carter


#i #image #in other words #intimately #knew

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


— Angela Carter


#day #egg #like #salt #without






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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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