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Angela Carter Quotes about Children

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The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

The child's laughter is pure until he first laughs at a clown.

Angela Carter
Laughter, Children, Laughing
Angela Carter (1984). “Nights at the circus”, Vintage

The lovely Hazard girls', they used to call them. Huh. Lovely is as lovely does; if they looked like what they behave like, they'd frighten little children.

Angela Carter
Girl, Children, Lovely

Vengeful as nature herself, she loves her children only in order to devour them better and if she herself rips her own veils of self-deceit, Mother perceives in herself untold abysses of cruelty as subtle as it is refined.

Angela Carter
Mother, Children, Rip

His contagious conviction that our love was unique and desperate infected me with an anxious sickness; soon we would learn to treat one another with the circumspect tenderness of comrades who are amputees, for we were surrounded by the most moving images of evanesecence, fireworks, morning glories, the old, children. But the most moving of these images were the intagible relfections of ourselves we saw in one another's eyes, reflections of nothing but appearances, in a city dedicated to seeming, and, try as we might to possess the essence of each other's otherness, we would inevitably fail.

Angela Carter
Morning, Children, Moving

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