"One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon……" — Angela Carter
"One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities."
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129 Quotes by Angela Carter
Angela Carter has 129 quotes on this site.
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Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience…
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she…
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a…
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There's a theory, one I find persuasive, that the quest for knowledge is, at bottom, the search for the answer…
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The kind of power mothers have is enormous. Take the skyline of Istanbul - enormous breasts, pathetic little willies, a…
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What a joy it is to dance and sing!
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Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods. If a revival of the myths of these cults…
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A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
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More Ambiguities Quotes
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Heaven preserve me from littleness and pleasantness and smoothness. Give me great glaring vices, and great glaring virtues, but preserve…
— Violet Trefusis
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It is the misanthrope who alone has clarity.By standing outside the huddles of man,he sees a lot,and what he often…
— Manu Joseph
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Was that what it means to be an adult, to live with ugly ambiguities?
— Banana Yoshimoto
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...I am much better now at ambiguities.
— Saul Bellow
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The surrealists, and the modern movement in painting as a whole, seemed to offer a key to the strange postwar…
— J. G. Ballard
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The individual (no matter how well-meaning he might be, no matter how much strength he might have, if only he…
— Soren Kierkegaard
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All my novels are about the ambiguities that lie beneath the sharp edges of the law.
— Scott Turow
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The Russian proposal over Iran's uranium enrichment program is considerable, but it has some problems and ambiguities to be clarified…
— Ali Larijani
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The ambiguities of language, both in terms of vocabulary and syntax, are fascinating: how important connotation is, what is lost…
— Marilyn Hacker
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A smile is the chosen vehicle of all ambiguities.
— Herman Melville
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In the revolt against idealism, the ambiguities of the word experience have been perceived, with the result that realists have…
— Bertrand Russell
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If it can be verified, we don't need faith... Faith is for that which lies on the other side of…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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