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Angela Carter

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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 of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.


— Angela Carter


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Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.


— Angela Carter


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Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!


— Angela Carter


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We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.


— Angela Carter


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


— Angela Carter


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Those are the voices of my brothers, darling; I love the company of wolves.


— Angela Carter


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One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.


— Angela Carter


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ordered me a sky from a florist


— Angela Carter


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I don't begrudge you my company, my darling. We must all make do with what rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.


— Angela Carter


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Before he can become a wolf, the lycanthrope strips naked. If you spy a naked man among the pines, you must run as if the Devil were after you.


— Angela Carter


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In 1977 Carter married Mark Pearce with whom Angela Carter had one son. She was actively involved in both film adaptations her screenplays are publiAngela Carterd in the collected dramatic writings The Curious Room together with her radio scripts a libretto for an opera of Virginia Woolf's Orlando an unproduced screenplay entitled The Christchurch Murders (based on the same true story as Peter Jackson's Heavenly Creatures) and other works. Works as author


Works on Angela Carter

Milne Andrew (2006) The Bloody Chamber d'Angela Carter Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit Université
Milne Andrew (2007) Angela Carter's The Bloody Chamber: A Reader's Guide Paris: Editions Le Manuscrit Université
Dimovitz Scott A.

Angela Carter (7 May 1940 – 16 February 1992) was an English novelist and journalist known for her feminist magical realism and picaresque works. In 2008 The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945".

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