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“Reciprocity of sensation is not possible because to share is to be robbed.”

Quote by Angela Carter

Book:The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History

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The Sadeian Woman: An Exercise in Cultural History

This book delves into the cultural and historical context surrounding the Marquis de Sade's writings, analyzing their impact on society and their role in the development of cultural history. more

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Angela Carter was an English novelist, short story writer, and literary critic. She is recognized for her imaginative and surreal narratives, frequently incorporating elements of fantasy, folklore, and Gothic literature. Carter's writing is celebrated for its intricate prose and exploration of themes like gender, class, and identity. more

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“And, oh God, in my misspent youth as a housewife, I, too, used to bake bread, in those hectic and desolating days just prior to the woman's movement, when middle-class women were supposed to be wonderful wives and mothers, gracious hostesses.... I used to feel so womanly when I was baking my filthy bread.”

Source: Expletives Deleted: Selected Writings

“Sade has a curious ability to render every aspect of sexuality suspect, so that we see how the chaste kiss of the sentimental lover differs only in degree from the vampirish love-bite that draws blood, we understand that a disinterested caress is only quantitatively different from a disinterested flogging.”

Different Ability Blood Lovers Kissing Degrees Draws Aspect Sexuality Curious Suspects Bites Sentimental Caress Chaste Disinterested Flogging

Author:Angela Carter

“it's just that I see love as odd as wearing shoes-- I never wanted to marry a girl who was like my mother And Ingrid Bergman was always impossible”

Love Wanted Mother Girl Impossible Shoes Odd Bergman Impossible Love

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“O how terrible it must be for a young man-- seated before a family and the family thinking We never saw him before! He wants our Mary Lou! After tea and homemade cookies they ask What do you do for a living”

Thinking Men Want Young Asks Saws Terrible Tea Young Man Mary Cookies Courtship Homemade Homemade Cookies

Book:The Happy Birthday of Death

Source: The Happy Birthday of Death

“a fat Reichian wife screeching over potatoes Get a job! And five nose running brats in love with Batman”

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Source: The Happy Birthday of Death

“It is no madness to say you will fall, you great cities.”

Fall Cities Destruction Madness Prophecy Great Cities

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Source: Trilogy

“Pompeii has nothing to teach us, we know crack of volcanic fissure, slow flow of terrible lava, pressure on heart, lungs, the brain about to burst its brittle case (what the skull can endure!)”

Knows Heart Brain Teach Cases Terrible Flow Destruction Pressure Endure Cracks Lungs Skulls Lava Pompeii

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“Not God with wine, nor death, nor hate for a cry, but God with a song”

God Hate Song Cry Wine

Book:Collected Poems 1912-1944

Source: Collected Poems 1912-1944

“We are these people, wistful, ironical, wilful, who have no part in new-world reconstruction, in the confederacy of labour.”

People World Change Labour New World Reconstruction

Book:Trilogy

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“Think of the moment you count most foul in your life; conjure it, supplicate, pray to it; your face is bleak, you retract, you dare not remember it.”

Thinking Moments Remember Faces Fear Praying Dare Your Face Foul Bleak

Book:Heliodora: And Other Poems

Source: Heliodora: And Other Poems