There is a striking resemblance between the act of love and the ministrations of a torturer.
Angela CarterAnd, conversely, she went on to herself, sneering at the Grand Duke's palace, poverty is wasted on the poor, who never know how to make the best of things, are only the rich without money, are just as useless at looking after themselves, can't handle their cash just like the rich can't, always squandering it on bright, pretty, useless things in just the same way.
Angela CarterTag: money rich wealth poverty foolishness irony poor
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What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
Angela CarterTag: philanthropy
Out of the frying pan into the fire! What is marriage but prostitution to one man instead of many? No different!
Angela CarterI don't begrudge you my company, my darling. We must all make do with what rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
Angela CarterTag: love
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 CarterTag: transformation metamorphosis the-bloody-chamber the-tigers-bride
ordered me a sky from a florist
Angela CarterTag: lovely
I would really like to have had the guts and the energy and so on to be able to write about, you know, people having battles with the DHSS. But I...I haven't. They're dull things. I mean, I'm an arty person. OK, I write overblown, purple, self-indulgent prose. So fucking what?
Angela Carter...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a million to one chance, but all the same there was a chance that if they kept on shaking their chains, one day, some day, the clasps upon the shackles would part.
Angela CarterIroning'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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