Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained … - Angela Carter

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All of my peers died of AIDS, and I have no one to celebrate my past or my journey, or to help me pass down stories to the next generation. We lost an entire generation of storytellers with HIV.

Angela Carter

Some cities are women and must be loved; others are men and can only be admired or bargained with

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What would the daughters of the rich do with themselves if the poor ceased to exist?

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Not for Moorcock the painful, infrequent excretion of dry little novels like so many rabbit pellets; his is the grand, messy fluxitself, in all its heroic vulgarity, its unquenchable optimism, its enthusiasm for the inexhaustible variousness of things.

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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself.

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It shone on everyone, whether they had a contract or not. The most democratic thing I'd ever seen, that California sunshine.

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To pin your hopes upon the future is to consign those hopes to a hypothesis, which is to say, a nothingness. Here and now is what we must contend with.

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