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Angela Carter , foi uma jornalista, poeta, escritora e contista britânica.

Conhecida por sua literatura pós-feminista, pelos romances picarescos e pelo realismo mágico de suas obras, sem falar em trabalhos de ficção científica. Seu livro mais conhecido foi publicado em 1979, chamado The Bloody Chamber, que serviu de inspiração para o filme Na companhia dos lobos, de Neil Jordan. Em 2008, o The Times ranqueou Angela em décimo lugar entre os 50 maiores escritores britânicos desde 1945. Em 2012, seu livro Nights at the Circus foi premiado no James Tait Black Memorial Prize como o melhor romance da história. Wikipedia  

✵ 7. Maio 1940 – 16. Fevereiro 1992  •  Outros nomes Анджела Картър, ਐਂਜੇਲਾ ਕਾਰਟਰ
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Angela Carter: Frases em inglês

“I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.”

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Angela Carter livro The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

Fonte: The Infernal Desire Machines of Doctor Hoffman

“The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh?”

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Angela Carter livro Nights at the Circus

Fonte: Nights at the Circus

“To be the object of desire is to be defined in the passive case.
To exist in the passive case is to die in the passive case – that is, to be killed.
This is the moral of the fairy tale about the perfect woman.”

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Fonte: The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography

“He was a lovely man in many ways. But he kept on insisting on forgiving me when there was nothing to forgive.”

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Angela Carter livro Wise Children

Fonte: Wise Children

“Like the wild beasts, she lives without a future. She inhabits only the present tense, a fugue of the continuous, a world of sensual immediacy as without hope as it is without despair.”

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Fonte: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.”

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Angela Carter The Passion of New Eve

Fonte: The Passion of New Eve

“I had the brief notion that his heart, pressed flat as a flower, crimson and thin as tissue paper, lay in this file. It was a very thin one.”

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Fonte: The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories

“A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.”

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Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992).

“Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.”

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The Bridled Sweeties (1977).

“My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.”

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Response to a student's question in her writing class, as quoted by Louis Menand in the New Yorker (June 8-15, 2009), p. 112.

“Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.”

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The Kitchen Child (1976).

“Aeneas carried his aged father on his back from the ruins of Troy and so do we all, whether we like it or not, perhaps even if we have never known them.”

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Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings (1998).