Angela Carter
Angela Carter
Angela Olive Carter-Pearcewho published as Angela Carter, was an English novelist, short story writer and journalist, known for her feminist, magical realism, and picaresque works. In 2008, The Times ranked Carter tenth in their list of "The 50 greatest British writers since 1945". In 2012, Nights at the Circus was selected as the best ever winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize...
NationalityEnglish
ProfessionNovelist
Date of Birth7 May 1940
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They danced the dance of the outcasts for the outcasts who watched them, amid the louring trees, with a blizzard coming on.
adjective books books-and-reading fun means
I think the adjective ''post-modernist'' really means ''mannerist.'' Books about books is fun but frivolous.
dinner great kids rings
Dinner was awesome. Mr. Rings can cook. And the kids did great serving.
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Mother goddesses are just as silly a notion as father gods
future lead proud wonder
One day I think she will be famous. We are just really proud of her and I wonder what this will lead to. I wonder what her future will be.
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The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.
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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 color and tactile braid, it is as abstract in symbolic information as a parasol to an Eskimo. It becomes simply magnificent.
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Moonlight, white satin, roses. A bride.
daughter philanthropy rich
What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?
sky eternity lost
She stood lost in eternity... watching the immense sky...
book writing ideas
A book is simply the container of an idea-like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation.
humanity rags scarecrow
We must all make do with the rags of love we find flapping on the scarecrow of humanity.
eggs salt argument
A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.