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• 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 her future. A moon-daisy dropped to the floor, down from her hair, like a faintly derisive sign from heaven.

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  Girl, Eye, Moon

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• Hope for the best, expect the worst.

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  Hoping For The Best, Worst

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• F.R. Leavis's "eat up your broccoli" approach to fiction emphasises this junkfood/wholefood dichotomy. If reading a novel--for theeighteenth century reader, the most frivolous of diversions--did not, by the middle of the twentieth century, make you a better person in some way, then you might as well flush the offending volume down the toilet, which was by far the best place for the undigested excreta of dubious nourishment.

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  Reading, Offending, Dubious

  Angela Carter (2012). “Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings”, p.22, Random House

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• The wolf is carnivore incarnate and he's as cunning as he is ferocious; once he's had a taste of flesh then nothing else will do.

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  Flesh, Taste, Carnivores

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

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• Art need no longer be an account of past sensations.

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  Art, Past, Needs

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• I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.

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  Love You, Thinking, Want

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• One beast and only one howls in the woods by night.

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  Night, Woods, Beast

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

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• This lack of imagination gives his heroism to the hero.

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  Hero, Giving, Imagination

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

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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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  Flower, Heart, Tissue Paper

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• Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

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  Funny, Humor, People

  Angela Carter (2012). “Wise Children”, p.213, Random House

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• His main principles were indeed as follows: everything it is possible to imagine can also exist.

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  Principles, Imagine

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• [T]ea, that uniquely English meal, that unnecessary collation at which no stimulants--neither alcohol nor meat--are served, that comforting repast of which to partake is as good as second childhood.

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  Childhood, Alcohol, Comforting

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

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• Losing their names, these things underwent a process of uncreation.

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  Names, Losing, Process

  Angela Carter (2011). “Heroes and Villains”, p.243, Penguin UK

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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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  Father, Farewell, Glasses

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

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• The only time I ever iron the sheets or make meringues is when there is an ... urgent deadline in the offing.

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  Iron, Sheets, Deadline

  "The stories of our lives" by Carmen Callil, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2008.

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• Strangers used to gather together at the cinema and sit together in the dark, like Ancient Greeks participating in the mysteries, dreaming the same dream in unison.

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  Dream, Dark, Greek

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

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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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  Life, Women, Morality

  Angela Carter (2015). “Angela Carter's Book Of Wayward Girls And Wicked Women”, p.6, Hachette UK

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• Not many people can boast a photo of their grandmother posing for kiddiporn.

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  Grandmother, People, Posing

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• 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 end of night.

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  Night, Long, Boredom

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

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• Just because we're sisters under the skin doesn't mean we've got much in common.

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  Sister, Mean, Justice

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• Spindly branches of buttercups were secreted among gleaming stems still moist at the roots from last night's rain that had washedand refreshed the entire wood, had dowered it in poignant transparency, the unique, inconsolable quality of rainy countries, as if all was glimpsed through tears.

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  Country, Rain, Unique

  Angela Carter (2016). “Burning Your Boats: Collected Short Stories”, p.81, Random House

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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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  Christmas, Doors, Midnight

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• Sad; so sad, those smoky-rose, smoky-mauve evenings of late Autumn, sad enough to pierce the heart.

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  Sad, Heart, Autumn

  Angela Carter (1987). “Saints and Strangers”, Penguin Group USA

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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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• ordered me a sky from a florist

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  Sky

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