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Angela Carter Quote: “Fish in the sea are luminous so that they can recognise one another; might not men and women also exude some kind of speechless luminescence to those akin to them?”

201. “Fish in the sea are luminous so that they can recognise one another; might not men and women also exude some kind of speechless luminescence to those akin to them?”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?”

202. “To ride a bicycle is in itself some protection against superstitious fears, since the bicycle is the product of pure reason applied to motion. Geometry at the service of man! Give me two spheres and a straight line and I will show you how far I can take them. Voltaire himself might have invented the bicycle, since it contributes so much to man’s welfare and nothing at all to his bane. Beneficial to the health, it emits no harmful fumes and permits only the most decorous speeds. How can a bicycle ever be an implement of harm?”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.”

203. “By the end of the affair, she had acquired so much miserable information about men and women she almost decided to give up relationships for good.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”

204. “October, crisp, misty, golden October, when the light is sweet and heavy.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “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.”

205. “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.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions are unalterable. This straitjacket psychology relates his fiction directly back to the black and white ethical world of fairy tale and fable; it is in conflict with his frequently expounded general theory of moral relativity, that good and evil are not the same thing at all times and in all places.”

206. “The notion of a natural propensity for vice is essential to Sadeian psychology; vice is innate, as is virtue, if social conditions are unalterable. This straitjacket psychology relates his fiction directly back to the black and white ethical world of fairy tale and fable; it is in conflict with his frequently expounded general theory of moral relativity, that good and evil are not the same thing at all times and in all places.”

— Angela Carter

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

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

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “His tobacco had a richly herbal smell, as though it was good for you.”

208. “His tobacco had a richly herbal smell, as though it was good for you.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “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.”

209. “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.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “I watched with the furious cynicism peculiar to women whom circumstances force mutely to witness folly.”

210. “I watched with the furious cynicism peculiar to women whom circumstances force mutely to witness folly.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “The world exists only as a medium in which we execute our desires. Physically, the world itself, the actual world – the real world, if you like – is formed of malleable clay; its metaphysical structures is just as malleable.”

211. “The world exists only as a medium in which we execute our desires. Physically, the world itself, the actual world – the real world, if you like – is formed of malleable clay; its metaphysical structures is just as malleable.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “Sea; sand; a sky that melts into the sea – a landscape of misty pastels with a look about it of being continiously on the point of melting.”

212. “Sea; sand; a sky that melts into the sea – a landscape of misty pastels with a look about it of being continiously on the point of melting.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “The demands of ritual are always stronger than those of reason.”

213. “The demands of ritual are always stronger than those of reason.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “Watching a film was like being a voyeur, living vicariously.”

214. “Watching a film was like being a voyeur, living vicariously.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “Then I understood the thing I’d never grasped back in those days, when I was young, before I lived in history. When I was young, I’d wanted to be ephemeral, I’d wanted the moment, to live in just the glorious moment, the rush of blood, the applause. Pluck the day. Eat the peach. Tomorrow never comes. But, oh yes, tomorrow does come all right, and when it comes it lasts a bloody long time, I can tell you.”

215. “Then I understood the thing I’d never grasped back in those days, when I was young, before I lived in history. When I was young, I’d wanted to be ephemeral, I’d wanted the moment, to live in just the glorious moment, the rush of blood, the applause. Pluck the day. Eat the peach. Tomorrow never comes. But, oh yes, tomorrow does come all right, and when it comes it lasts a bloody long time, I can tell you.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “I saw before me a mansion in the Gothic style, all ivied over, and, above the turrets, floated a fingernail moon with a star in its arms.”

216. “I saw before me a mansion in the Gothic style, all ivied over, and, above the turrets, floated a fingernail moon with a star in its arms.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “The function of the fool in the Elizabethan drama, a reference point outside events but inside another kind of logic, the remorseless logic of unreason where all vision is deranged, all action uncoordinated and all responses beyond prediction.”

217. “The function of the fool in the Elizabethan drama, a reference point outside events but inside another kind of logic, the remorseless logic of unreason where all vision is deranged, all action uncoordinated and all responses beyond prediction.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “Nothing about him reminded me of humanity.”

218. “Nothing about him reminded me of humanity.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “They rolled all over the pastel crayons scattered on the sheets so her back was variegated with patches and blotches all the colours of the rainbow and Lee was also marked everywhere with brilliant dusts, both here and there also darkly spotted with blood, each a canvas involuntarily patterned by those workings of random chance so much prized by the surrealists.”

219. “They rolled all over the pastel crayons scattered on the sheets so her back was variegated with patches and blotches all the colours of the rainbow and Lee was also marked everywhere with brilliant dusts, both here and there also darkly spotted with blood, each a canvas involuntarily patterned by those workings of random chance so much prized by the surrealists.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “Buzz crouched between her feet and scrutinised as much as he could see of her perilous interior to find out if all was in order and there were no concealed fangs or guillotines inside her to ruin him.”

220. “Buzz crouched between her feet and scrutinised as much as he could see of her perilous interior to find out if all was in order and there were no concealed fangs or guillotines inside her to ruin him.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time.”

221. “Consider the nature of a city. It is a vast repository of time.”

— Angela Carter

Angela Carter Quote: “Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation and reverted to chaos, existing only to themselves in an unstructured world where they were not formally acknowledged, becoming an ever-widening margin of undifferentiated and nameless matter surrounding the outposts of man, who no longer made himself familiar with these things or rendered the authentic in his experience by the gift of naming.”

222. “Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation and reverted to chaos, existing only to themselves in an unstructured world where they were not formally acknowledged, becoming an ever-widening margin of undifferentiated and nameless matter surrounding the outposts of man, who no longer made himself familiar with these things or rendered the authentic in his experience by the gift of naming.”

— Angela Carter

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