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Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.
— Angela Carter
And I could believe that it has been the same with him; he was alive from the desire of the woods.
— Angela Carter
There are limits to the power of laughter and though I may hint at them from time to time, I do not propose to step over them.
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The end of exile is the end of being.
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It is a characteristic of human beings that if they haven't got a family of their own, they will invent one.
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And it was sad music fit to make you cut your throat.
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Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.
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A book is simply the container of an idea like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
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The tiger will never lie down with the lamb; he acknowledges no pact that is not reciprocal. The lamb must learn to run with the tigers.
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She quickly interpreted him into her mythology but if, at first, he was a herbivorous lion, later he became a unicorn devouring raw meat.
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Proposition one: time is a man, space is a woman.
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A free woman in an unfree society will be a monster.
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I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.
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A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar.
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There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.
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She stood lost in eternity ... watching the immense sky ...
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The demands of ritual are always stronger than those of reason.
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He is, I think, already pondering a magisterial project: that of buggering the English language, the ultimate revenge of the colonialised.
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We keep the wolves outside by living well.
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Hope for the best, expect the worst.
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Is not this world an illusion? And yet it fools everybody.
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Evil is usually attractive, because evil is defiant.
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Our fingernails match our toenails, match our lipstick match our rouge ... The habit of applying warpaint outlasts the battle.
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A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.
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How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.
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The air shuddered with the beginning of absence.
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His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.
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The kind of power mothers have is enormous.
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The earth turned on the pivot of her mouth.
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I fall to the toilette of my hinder parts, my favourite stance when contemplating the ways of the world.
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Justine's virtue, in action, is the liberal lie in action, a good heart and an inadequate methodology.
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I will tell you what Jeanne was like. She was like a piano in a country where everyone has had their hands cut off.
— Angela Carter
She walked in technicolor.
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
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Reason cannot produce the poetry disorder does.
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One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.
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Anticipation is the greater part of pleasure.
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I see her as a series of marvellous shapes formed at random in the kaleidoscope of desire.
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The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
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Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with
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There are some eyes that can eat you.
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Perhaps ... I could not be content with mere contentment!
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My father lost me to the Beast at cards
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I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.
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This is some kind of heretical, possibly Manichean version of neo-Platonic Roscicrucianism, thinks I to myself; tread carefully, girlie!
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I clung to him as though only the one who had inflicted the pain could comfort me for suffering it.
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She looks wonderful, but she doesn't look right.
— Angela Carter
At the best of times, spring hurts depressives.
— Angela Carter
I am happy only in that I am a monster.
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As if your essence were hung up in a closet like a dress too good to be worn and you were reduced to going out in only your appearance.
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I can no longer tell the difference between memory and dream. They share the same quality of wishful thinking.
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Her face. And she smiling. For a moment, just that moment, you would have thought it was May morning.
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Soon, nostalgia will be another name for Europe.
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Time was his servant, too; it would trap me, here, in a night that would last until he came back to me, like a black sun on a hopeless morning.
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A mother is always a mother, since a mother is a biological fact, whilst a father is a movable feast.
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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged.
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I am entirely alone. I and my shadow fill the universe.
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Anxiety is the beginning of conscience, which is the parent of the soul but is not compatible with innocence.
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She goes out at night more often now; the landscape assembles itself about her, she informs it with her presence. She is its significance.
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His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.
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These days, you could stage a three-point orgy in the garden and nobody would bat an eye...
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For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody.
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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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The enchantment of that bright, sad, pretty place enveloped her and she found that, against all her expectations, she was happy there.
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It is, perhaps, better to be valued as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.
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Despair is the constant companion of the clown.
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Hollywood ... was the place where the United States perpetrated itself as a universal dream and put the dream into mass production.
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Nostalgia, the vice of the aged. We watch so many old movies our memories come in monochrome.
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If Miss means respectably unmarried, and Mrs. respectably married, then Ms. means nudge, nudge, wink, wink.
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There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
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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 her by force
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Snowlight, moonlight, a confusion of paw-prints.
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(And could love free me from the shadows? Can a caged bird sing only the song it knows or can it learn a new song?)
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It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.
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What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many?
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But needs must when the devil drives.
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I drew the curtains to conceal the sight of my father's farewell; my spite was sharp as broken glass.
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We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
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Ironing's nice and simple,' he said. 'I get all tangled up in words when I'm putting together those interminable papers ...
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Have you ever stared stark failure in the face, young man? The trick is, to outstare it!
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Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.
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Curiosity is the most fleeting of pleasures; the moment is satisfied, it ceases to exist and it always proves very, very expensive.
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Home is where the heart is and hence a movable feast.
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