Quotes by Marina Warner

Marina Warner

A society that doesn’t know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out.

Heart

Humanity

Journey

Although the stories are very present in my book, and very present in my mind, what I was most interested in was the question of why it had attracted such a following in the 18th Century. It’s less mysterious that it attracted a following in the Romantic period, and in the 19th Century, but the early 18th Century when the Rationalists fell in love with it…that was mysterious. What I wanted to look at was the forms of enchantment.

Book

Enchantment

Mind

An interesting example is that the worst woman in the book, who is so cruel and violent, is the sorceress in “The Prince of the Black Islands.” She’s a beautiful young woman, and she has turned her husband into stone from the waist down. A traveling sultan finds him, in his dreadful state, and the man petrified from the waist down tells his sad story…how his wife comes every afternoon and beats him until the blood runs down. She’s just unwontedly, arbitrarily cruel.

Beautiful

Husband

Running

Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

Creating

Heart

Simple

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

Maps

Men

Mother

For example, John Law’s Mississippi Company venture printed shares, and the money had gone up in smoke when it had been inscribed objects. The inscription made it magic and changed its meaning. That’s how objects become charmed in The Arabian Nights, and they are often originally ordinary objects. The carpet is an ordinary, paltry object. The lamp is a rusty old lamp, and the bottles jinns are imprisoned within are old bottles. They are changed by the magic and the jinn’s presence, and the jinn’s presence is often embodied in the seal or inscription.

Law

Magic

Night

I always have done work on mythic relations since I started writing. I really want to be a novelist, or at least a writer of imaginative work… I do try to make my critical studies imaginative and try to write them in ways that are more like literature than philosophy, but I have disappointed myself because I am still so wedded to criticism.

Criticism

Philosophy

Writing

I am not a great believer in dialectical struggle. I am much more of a fusion person. I see it as a dialogue, or trialogue, or polylogue: many, many, many voices, going back a long way. The cultural picture is much more mutually enriching at many different levels, manufacturers…absolutely, design and calligraphy. It’s an amazing amount of cross-interests between people.

Long

Struggle

Voice

I avoid looking in the mirror.

Looking In The Mirror

Mirrors

I consider it as a foreshadowing of modernity in many different respects, and the consistency of character is interesting to the emerging modern psychology. The emphasis on dream knowledge relates quite deeply to psychoanalysis, although I suppose psychoanalysis wouldn’t like to say that… Freud was always saying he was a scientist.

Character

Dream

Interesting

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Age

Aliens

Attitude

Beautiful

Black

Book

Bookworms

Brother

Catholic

Chains

Character

Children

Cities

Class

Cosmos

Creating

Criticism

Culture

Depth

Desire

Different

Done

Dream

Educational

Enchantment

Erotic

Essence

Fairy Tale

Female

Fervent

Figures

Firsts

Flow

Fun

Gentleman

Ghouls

Glasses

Greek

Heart

Humanity

Husband

Ideas

Important

Information

Injustice

Interesting

Italian

Journey

Justice

Kind

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Quotes by Marina Warner

Marina Warner

A society that doesn’t know any longer how to observe every death with proper rituals, that does not know that death is not the end, but only part of the journey, has lost its way, has had the very heart of its humanity torn out.

Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

Fairy tales are about money, marriage, and men. They are the maps and manuals that are passed down from mothers and grandmothers to help them survive.

I avoid looking in the mirror.

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