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I think it's one of the scars in our culture that we have too high an opinion of ourselves. We align ourselves with the angels instead of the higher primates.

— Angela Carter

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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

Wise Children (1991)

A book is simply the container of an idea—like a bottle; what is inside the book is what matters.

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992)

Women's sexy underwear is a minor but significant growth industry of late-twentieth-century Britain in the twilight of capitalism.

The Bridled Sweeties (1977)

My work cuts like a steel blade at the base of a man's penis.

Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual.

Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings (1992)

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