"They will be like shadows, they will be……" — Angela Carter
"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."
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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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My father was an American who could cuss in Italian and make an aria out of it. It was wonderful…
— Dominic Chianese
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Why should I? When someone insulted Caruso, did he sing an aria for him?
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When I started studying for the arias it was like going into training for a heavyweight title fight
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Geoff Nelder's ARIA has the right stuff. He makes us ask the most important question in science fiction-the one about…
— Unknown Author
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Memoir is trustworthy and its truth assured when it seeks the relation of self to time, the piecing of the…
— Patricia Hampl
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A soprano in Massenet's Don Quixote complained that she had missed her entry in the aria, "because Mr. Challiapin always…
— Thomas Beecham
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Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The…
— Geraldo Rivera
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Youth has many glories, but judgement is not one of them, and no amount of electronic amplification can turn a…
— Alan Jay Lerner
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I got last-minute rush seats to Baz Luhrmann's 'Boheme,' and my favorite singer, Ekaterina Solovyeva, was playing Mimi that day.…
— Nina Arianda
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For many years, I thought a poem was a whisper overheard, not an aria heard.
— Rita Dove
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An aria in an opera - Handel's 'Ombra mai fu,' for example - gets along with an incredibly small number…
— James Fenton
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I never listen to music when I am writing. It would be impossible. I listen to Bach in the mornings,…
— Colm Toibin
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