Angela Carter
Angela Carter
Angela Olive Carter-Pearcewho published as Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer 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". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 May 1940
may determined blame
we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.
barbarians able blame
If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
europe names nostalgia
Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
english-novelist man marriage
What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
english-novelist
Is not this whole world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
english-novelist image knew love realize relation
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.
father goddesses gods mother notion silly
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods
care requires
I see this every day. If it's not a hand-out, if it's not free, if it requires a little work, they don't care for it.
dinner great kids rings
Dinner was awesome. Mr. Rings can cook. And the kids did great serving.
future lead proud wonder
One day I think she will be famous. We are just really proud of her and I wonder what this will lead to. I wonder what her future will be.
abstract aggression becomes blood clothing coat color decorative dress eye hopes iconic information innocent inside loses man red seduced seen simply symbolic tactile uniform
Iconic clothing has been secularized. A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.
bit experience far nicer people problem refer somebody useful workplace
It's useful when a problem comes up that you have no experience of. You then have somebody you can refer to, ... The workplace would be a far nicer place if people said 'thank you' a bit more often.
blizzard coming dance-and-dancing danced outcasts watched
They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on.
mind lovely age
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.