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Throwing open the door, she brings forth the veritable queen of all the souffles, that spreads its archangelic wings over the entire kitchen as it leaps upwards from the dish in which the force of gravity alone confines it.

— Angela Carter The Kitchen Child (1976)

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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.

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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.

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