Angela Carter

Art need no longer be an account of past sensations. It can become the direct organization of more highly evolved sensations. It is a question of producing ourselves, not things that enslave us. ↗

— Angela Carter

#art #become #direct #enslave #evolved

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. ↗

— Angela Carter

#happens #other #people #tragedy

It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time. ↗

— Angela Carter

#age #certain #certain age #every #female

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

— Angela Carter

#except #life #life and death #matter #nothing

A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters. ↗

— Angela Carter

#bottle #container #idea #inside #like

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. ↗

— Angela Carter

#aged #back #carried #even #father

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

— Angela Carter

#beginning #compatible #conscience #innocence #parent

Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production. ↗

— Angela Carter

#hollywood #into #itself #mass #mass production

I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps. ↗

— Angela Carter

#changed #haven #heart #i #kinder

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

#angels #culture #high #higher #i