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Angela Carter Quotes

«The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation.»
«There is more to fathering than fucking»
Author: Angela Carter (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: fathering
«Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.»
«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.»
«There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.»
Author: Angela Carter (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: carpet
«Hollywood... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.»
«The fin is coming early this siecle.»
Author: Angela Carter (Novelist, Writer) | Keywords: fin, fins
«Art is good when it springs from necessity. This kind of origin is the guarantee of its value; there is no other.»
Author: Angela Carter (Novelist, Writer) | About: Art | Keywords: guarantee
«As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.»
«What a joy it is to dance and sing!»

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