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  1. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    I understand,' said Melanie. An ancient, female look passed between them; they were poor women pensioners, planets round a male sun.
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  2. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    His tobacco had a richly herbal smell, as though it was good for you.
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  3. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    They were dirty and common. She hated to use the word "common", only common people called other people "common"; her mother taught her that.
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  4. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    Watching a film was like being a voyeur, living vicariously.
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  5. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    ...she found it made things easier if she dramatised them. Or melodramatised them. It was easier, for example, to face the fact of Uncle Philip if she saw him as a character in a film, possibly played by Orson Welles.
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  6. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    And this was how the red people passed their time and amused themselves when they thought nobody was watching."
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  7. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    NU S-AR FI AȘTEPTAT CA SUFLETUL LUI SĂ CUNOASCĂ ASTFEL DE TRĂIRI. {…} MELANIE SE SIMȚEA UȘOR VINOVATĂ CĂ NU-I PUTEA ÎMPĂRTĂȘI SENTIMENTELE CU ACEEAȘI INTENSITATE.
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  8. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    Her carved eyeballs stared back at them with the uncanny blindness of statues, who seem always to be perceiving another dimension, where everything is statues.
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  9. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    It was a sensitive and musical dog.
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  10. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    Finn is Daddy,' said Victoria with fat satisfaction.'Not yet,' said Finn. 'But we'll christen the first one Proximity.'Melanie choked on a mouthful.
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  11. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    It was the fault of the wedding-dress night, when she married the shadows and the world ended.
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  12. Angela Carter _ The Magic Toyshop

    But needs must when the devil drives.
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