Angela Carter Quotes about Literature

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A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

Angela Carter

Eggs, Literature, Salt

Angela Carter (1997). “Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings”, Vintage

To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

Angela Carter

Literature, Pins, Hypothesis

Nothing is a matter of life and death except life and death.

Angela Carter

Life And Death, Literature, Matter

The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

Angela Carter

Clever, Experience, Literature

Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.10, Hachette UK