Quote

His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

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
Principles
Imagine
Possible
Also
Follows
Everything
Main
Indeed
Exist

More quotes by 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 know that whenever a group of women are gathered together, the grandmother always makes a phantom appearance, hovering above them.
Angela Carter
Image
ordered me a sky from a florist
Angela Carter
Image
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
Angela Carter
Image
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle what is inside the book is what matters.
Angela Carter
Image
It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
Angela Carter
Image
He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.
Angela Carter
Image
How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
Angela Carter
Image
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
Angela Carter
Image
The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.
Angela Carter
Image
The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.
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
Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
Angela Carter
Image
And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.
Angela Carter
Image
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
Angela Carter
Image
Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge...The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.
Angela Carter
Image
In the mythic schema of all relations between men and women, man proposes, and woman is disposed of.
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
Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
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