Quote

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

Angela Carter

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Angela Carter
Age: 51 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 7
Died: 1992
Died: February 16
Author
Journalist
Linguist
Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
Screenwriter
Translator
Writer
Eastbourne
Sussex
Angela Olive Stalker Carter
Angela Olive Carter
Angela Olive Stalker
Angela Olive Pearce
Except
Literature
Death
Nothing
Matter
Life

More quotes by Angela Carter

Image
His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.
Angela Carter
Image
They will be like shadows, they will be like wraiths, gray members of a congregation of nightmare hark! his long wavering howl . . . an aria of fear made audible. The wolfsong is the sound of the rending you will suffer, in itself a murdering.
Angela Carter
Image
A young girl would go into the wood as trustingly as Red Riding Hood to her granny's house but this light admits no ambiguities and, here, she will be trapped in her own illusion because everything in the woods is exactly as it seems.
Angela Carter
Image
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
Image
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
Image
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Angela Carter
Image
Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.
Angela Carter
Image
Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.
Angela Carter
Image
A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
Angela Carter
Image
Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
Angela Carter
Image
If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
Angela Carter
Image
My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.
Angela Carter
Image
I haven't changed much, over the years. I use less adjectives, now, and have a kinder heart, perhaps.
Angela Carter
Image
Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.
Angela Carter
Image
Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. . . . Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
Angela Carter
Image
The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
Angela Carter
Image
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
Image
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
Angela Carter
Image
One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.
Angela Carter
Image
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