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• The one-eyed man will be King in the country of the blind only if he arrives there in full possession of his partial faculties--that is, providing he is perfectly aware of the precise nature of sight and does not confuse it with second sightnor with madness.

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  Country, Kings, Men

  Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

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• Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been

  Angela Carter

  Stars, Eye, Doors

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.91, Random House

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• Irish was a man of parts even if some of them didn't work too well.

  Angela Carter

  Work, Sarcasm, Men

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.122, Random House

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• Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.

  Angela Carter

  Creativity, Optimism, Rabbits

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• The notion of a universality of human experience is a confidence trick and the notion of a universality of female experience is a clever confidence trick.

  Angela Carter

  Clever, Experience, Literature

  Angela Carter (2015). “The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History”, p.10, Hachette UK

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• I think the adjective post-modernist really means mannerist. Books about books is fun but frivolous.

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  Fun, Book, Mean

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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.

  Angela Carter

  Moon, Night, Sight

  Angela Carter (1971). “Love: a novel”

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• He is the intermediary between us, his audience, the living, and they, the dolls, the undead, who cannot live at all and yet who mimic the living in every detail since, though they cannot speak or weep, still they project those signals of signification we instantly recognize as language.

  Angela Carter

  Dolls, Details, Language

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• It is, perhaps, a better thing to be valued only as an object of passion than never to be valued at all.

  Angela Carter

  Passion, Literature, Objects

  "Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories".

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• we must not blame our poor symbols if they take forms that seem trivial to us, or absurd, ... however paltry they may be; the nature of our life alone has determined their forms.

  Angela Carter

  May, Determined, Blame

  Angela Carter (1977). “The Passion of New Eve”, Harcourt

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• My mother learned that she was carrying me at about the same time the Second World War was declared; with the family talent for magic realism, she once told me she had been to the doctor's on the very day.

  Angela Carter

  Mother, War, Magic Realism

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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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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  Years, Hours, Mets

  Angela Carter (1977). “The Passion of New Eve”, Harcourt

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• What do you see when you see me?' She asked him, burying her own face in his bosom. 'Do you want the truth?' She nodded. 'The firing squad.' 'That's not the whole truth. Try again.' 'Insatiability,' he said with some bitterness. 'That's oblique but altogether too simple. Once more,' she insisted. 'One more time.' He was silent for several minutes. 'The map of a country in which I only exist by virtue of the extravagance of my metaphors.' 'Now you're being too sophisticated. And, besides, what metaphors do we have in common?

  Angela Carter

  Country, Simple, Squad

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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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  Lonely, Character, Mirrors

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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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.

  Angela Carter

  White, Promise, Faces

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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.

  Angela Carter

  Beautiful, Hair, Water

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• Iconic clothing has been secularized. . . . A guardsman in a dress uniform is ostensibly an icon of aggression; his coat is red as the blood he hopes to shed. Seen on a coat-hanger, with no man inside it, the uniform loses all its blustering significance and, to the innocent eye seduced by decorative colour and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.

  Angela Carter

  Hope, Eye, Men

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• She stands and moves within the invisible pentacle of her own virginity. She is an unbroken egg: she is a sealed vessel; she has inside her a magic space the entrance to which is shut tight with a plug of membrane; she is a closed system; she does not know how to shiver.

  Angela Carter

  Moving, Eggs, Space

  Angela Carter (1997). “Burning your boats: the collected short stories”, Penguin Group USA

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• The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children.

  Angela Carter

  Girl, Children, Lovely

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• 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 the mirror. And I saw myself, suddenly, as he saw me, my pale face, the way the muscles in my neck stuck out like thin wire. I saw how much that cruel necklace became me. And, for the first time in my innocent and confined life, I sensed in myself a potentiality for corruption that took my breath away.

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  Eye, Mirrors, Sight

  Angela Carter (2012). “The Bloody Chamber And Other Stories”, p.6, Random House

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• There are lots of things that you can brush under the carpet about yourself until you're faced with somebody whose needs won't be put off.

  Angela Carter

  Knowledge, Needs, Brushes

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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.

  Angela Carter

  Revenge, Thinking, Language

  Angela Carter (1993). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, Vintage Books

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• Do not think I do not realise what I am doing. I am making a composition using the following elements: the winter beach; the winter moon; the ocean; the women; the pine trees; the riders; the driftwood; the shells; the shapes of darkness and the shapes of water; and the refuse. These are all inimical to my loneliness because of their indifference to it. Out of these pieces of inimical indifference, I intend to represent the desolate smile of winter which, as you must have gathered, is the smile I wear.

  Angela Carter

  Beach, Loneliness, Ocean

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• My paternal grandmother would not light a fire on the Sabbath and piled all Sunday's washing-up in a bucket, to be dealt with on Monday morning, because the Sabbath was a day of rest--a practice that made my paternal grandfather, the village atheist, as mad as fire. Nevertheless, he willed five quid to the minister, just to be on the safe side.

  Angela Carter

  Monday, Morning, Atheist

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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• 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 of his wondrously serene old age, he contemplates our lives almost as if they were books he can dip into whenever he wants. His back pages, perhaps.

  Angela Carter

  Father, Book, Soul

  Angela Carter (1998). “Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings”, Penguin Group USA

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