Angela Carter Frases y Citas
De Femme Fatales, 1978.
Fuente: Hope Jennings, Journey Towards the (M)other: Myth, origins and the daughter's desires in the fiction of Angela Carter, 2006.
Fuente: https://www.revistavanityfair.es/poder/articulos/siempre-nos-quedara-paris/19580 «Siempre nos quedará París». 21 de septiembre de 2014.
Angela Carter: Frases en inglés
Interview http://www.amielandmelburn.org.uk/collections/mt/pdf/85_01_20.pdf in Marxism Today, January 1985.
Contexto: I'm interested in the division that Judeo-Christianity has made between human nature and animal nature. None of the other great faiths in the world have got quite that division between us and them. None of the others has made this enormous division between birds and beasts who, as Darwin said, would have developed consciences if they'd had the chance, and us. I think it's one of the scars in Western Europe. I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.
“Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.”
Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).
“The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.”
Fuente: Nights at the Circus
“Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.”
Fuente: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
“I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.”
Fuente: The Magic Toyshop
Fuente: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
“I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.”
Fuente: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman
“There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.”
Fuente: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.”
Fuente: Nights at the Circus
Fuente: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Fuente: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
“The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.”
Fuente: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
Fuente: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
“Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.”
Fuente: Wise Children (1991), ch. 5 (p.213).
“One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.”
Fuente: Burning Your Boats: The Collected Short Stories
Fuente: Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories