The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown l…

Angela Carter
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The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh? ✨ Angela Carter (1984). Nights at the circus, Vintage
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Language is power, life and the instrument of culture, the instrument of domination and liberation. ✨ Angela Carter (1998). Shaking a Leg: Collected Writings, Penguin Group USA
...in their millenial and long-lived patience they knew quite well how, in a hundred years, or a thousand years' time, or else, perhaps, tomorrow, in an hour's time, for it was all a gamble, a millio … ▶
Cities have sexes: London is a man, Paris a woman, and New York a well-adjusted transsexual. ✨ Angela Carter (1997). Shaking a Leg: Journalism and Writings, Vintage
I think I want to be in love with you but I don't know how.
For hours, for days, for years, she had wandered endlessly within herself but never met anybody, nobody. ✨ Angela Carter (1977). The Passion of New Eve, Harcourt

The clown may be the source of mirth, but - who shall make the clown laugh? ✨ Angela Carter (1984). Nights at the circus, Vintage

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