His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious … - Angela Carter - Quotesmemo.com

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After my grandfather died I went down to the basement of my family house where my family kept books, anthologies and things and there was an anthology without any names attached to it and I read a poem called Spellbound and I somehow attached it to my grandfather's death and I thought my grandfather had written it.

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Angela Carter

His wedding gift, clasped round my throat. A choker of rubies, two inches wide, like an extraordinarily precious slit throat.

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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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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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