381 Quotes by Angela Carter

Have you ever stared stark failure in the face, young man? The trick is, to outstare it!

They look around the world and think: ‘There must be something better!’ But there isn’t. Sorry, chum. This is it. What you see is what you get. Only the here and now.

It’s one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves.

The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.

Man does and is dressed to do so, his skin is his own business. He is artful, the creation of culture. Woman is; and is, therefore, fully dressed in no clothes at all, her skin is common property.

My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor’s on the very day.

I think I want to be in love with you but I don’t know how.

It would mean that the castle is not yet generating enough eroto-energy.

The child’s laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.