381 Quotes by Angela Carter

That is what I’m looking forward to the most, practical learning. I want to be a registered nurse so getting to talk to people who already work in those jobs can really teach me what to expect when I get out in the real world.

The air shuddered with the beginning of absence.

There are limits to the power of laughter and though I may hint at them from time to time, I do not propose to step over them.

The demands of ritual are always stronger than those of reason.

The habit of sardonic contemplation is the hardest habit of all to break.

One of Sade’s singularities is that he offers an absolutely sexualised view of the world, a sexualisation that permeates everything, much as his atheism does and, since he is not a religious man but a political man, he treats the facts of female sexuality not as a moral dilemma but as a political reality.

I understand,′ said Melanie. An ancient, female look passed between them; they were poor women pensioners, planets round a male sun.

Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn’t work too well.

The rich can afford to be virtuous, the poor must shift as best they can.