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From Quotes by Angela Carter
- 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…
- In a world where women are commodities, a woman who refuses to sell herself will have the thing she refuses to sell taken away from…
- With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring…
- They were connoisseurs of boredom. They savoured the various bouquets of the subtly differentiated boredoms which rose from the long, wasted hours at the dead…
- She herself is a haunted house. She does not possess herself; her ancestors sometimes come and peer out of the windows of her eyes and…
- For all cats have this particularity, each and every one, from the meanest alley sneaker to the proudest, whitest she that ever graced a pontiff's…
- She said to the Daisy girl with her big brown eyes: 'I will not have it plain. No. Fancy. It must be fancy!' She meant…
- When I saw him look at me with lust, I dropped my eyes but, in glancing away from him, I caught sight of myself in…
- ordered me a sky from a florist
- For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories…
- I should have liked to have had him beside me in a glass coffin, so that I could watch him all the time and he…
- He was prepared to die for it, as one of Baudelaire's dandies might have been prepared to kill himself in order to preserve himself in…
- You must realize that I was suffering from love and I knew him as intimately as I knew my own image in a mirror. In…
- 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…
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