"I drew the curtains to conceal the sight……" — Angela Carter

I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell;… - Angela Carter

"I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass."

— Angela Carter

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129 Quotes by Angela Carter

Angela Carter has 129 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience…
Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she…
To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a…
There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer…
The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a…
What a joy it is to dance and sing!
Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults…
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.

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Moshing and broken glass just don't go together. — Billie Joe Armstrong
Our immigration system is a broken system that needs to be fixed. We need reform that provides hardworking people of… — Joe Baca
Arbitrary power is like most other things which are very hard, very liable to be broken. — Abigail Adams
I've had my heart broken one too many times. — Tyra Banks
At best, the renewal of broken relations is a nervous matter. — Henry Adams
I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg. — James M. Barrie
Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families… — Gary Bauer
Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the… — Simone de Beauvoir
I hate to say it but I think it has become very obvious that our system for devising trade agreements,… — Xavier Becerra
All men are tempted. There is no man that lives that can't be broken down, provided it is the right… — Henry Ward Beecher
In Mexico we have a trick - add a crystal of salt to the kettle and the tea tastes better,… — Gael Garcia Bernal
Congratulations. I knew the record would stand until it was broken. — Yogi Berra

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