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Angela Carter was an English novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She is recognized for her imaginative and surreal narratives, frequently incorporating elements of fantasy, folklore, and Gothic literature. Carter's writing is celebrated for its intricate prose and exploration of themes like gender, class, and identity.

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“...a great future behind him, already”

Age Future Waste Writer Old

Book:Wise Children

Source: Wise Children

“Like the culture that created me, I am receding into the past at a rate of knots. Soon I'll need a whole row of footnotes if anybody under thirty-five is going to comprehend the least thing I say.”

Age Aging Maturity

Book:Burning your boats: the collected short stories

Source: Burning your boats: the collected short stories

“Cats of all kinds weave in and out of the text; Burroughs has clearly taken to them in a big way in his old age and seems torn between a fear they will betray him into sentimentality and a resigned acceptance that a man can't be ironic all the time.”

Men Way Kind Bigs Seems Age Taken Acceptance Cat Old Age All Kinds Irony Ironic Betray Torn Sentimentality Resigned Burroughs

Book:Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

“As for my father, few souls are less troubled. He can be simply pleased with us, pleased that we exist, and, from the vantage point of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.”

Ifs Want Book Soul Age Father Our Lives Pages Old Age Contemplating Serene Dip Vantage Point

Book:Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

Source: Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings

“In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.”

World Age Order Literature Gains Miracle Credit Secular Hoaxes

Book:Nights at the circus

Source: Nights at the circus

“It's every woman's tragedy, that, after a certain age, she looks like a female impersonator. Mind you, we've known some lovely female impersonators, in our time.”

Mind Looks Age Certain Literature Known Female Tragedy Lovely Our Time Impersonators

Author:Angela Carter

About the Author

Born: May 7, 1940
Died: February 16, 1992
Known for: Novelist
Quotes: 211

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