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How far does a pretence of feeling, maintained with absolute conviction, become authentic?
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Never stray from the path, never eat a windfall apple and never trust a man whose eyebrows meet in the middle.
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Midnight, and the clock strikes. It is Christmas Day, the werewolves' birthday, the door of the solstice still wide enough open to let them all slink through.
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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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The invisible is only another unexplored country, a brave new world.
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Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.
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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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Though I still turn up my coat-collar in a lonely way and am always looking at myself in mirrors, they're only habits and give no clue at all to my character, whatever that is. The most difficult performance in the world is acting naturally isn't it? Everything else is artful.
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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.
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If the Barbarians are destroyed, who will we then be able to blame for the bad things?
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Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.
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One day, Annabel saw the sun and moon in the sky at the same time. The sight filled her with a terror which entirely consumed her and did not leave her until the night closed in catastrophe for she had no instinct for self-preservation if she was confronted by ambiguities.
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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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Fine art, that exists for itself alone, is art in a final state of impotence. If nobody, including the artist, acknowledges art as a means of knowing the world, then art is relegated to a kind of rumpus room of the mind and the irresponsibility of the artist and the irrelevance of art to actual living becomes part and parcel of the practice of art.
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The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
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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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For most of human history, 'literature,' both fiction and poetry, has been narrated, not written — heard, not read. So fairy tales, folk tales, stories from the oral tradition, are all of them the most vital connection we have with the imaginations of the ordinary men and women whose labor created our world.
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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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We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
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It is far easier for a woman to lead a blameless life than it is for a man; all she has to do is to avoid sexual intercourse like the plague.
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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 that is very frightening.
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Your thin white face, chérie; he said, as if he saw it for the first time. Your thin white face, with its promise of debauchery only a connoisseur could detect.
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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world.
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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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And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders; I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.
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Angela Carter
Born:
May 7, 1940
Died:
February 16, 1992
(aged 51)
Bio:
Angela Olive Carter-Pearce who published as Angela Carter was an English novelist, short story writer and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works.
Known for:
The Bloody Chamber (1982)
Nights at the Circus (1984)
Wise Children (1991)
The Magic Toyshop (1967)
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