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

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Angela Carter

#Two Quotes #Rubies Quotes #Inches Quotes

“Those hot pants of hers were so damned tight, I could hardly breathe.”

Source : "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17 % of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and the as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag.”
“Im in the public eye. I know Im not going to be treated like a normal person walking down the street.”
“Love is the doorway through which the human soul passes from selfishness to service.”
“I think you're put here on earth to enjoy yourself. And I'm doing that.”
“Positive findings are around twice as likely to be published as negative findings. This is a cancer at the core of evidence-based medicine.”

Source : A Rhetoric of Public Bias: How Doctors Are Mislead About the Drugs They Prescribe, delivered September 2012
“The end of despots is always odd?exhilarating to those who suffered their tyrannies, and to those who hold despotism in contempt, and anti-climatic at the same time, the discovery that these tyrants were petty, frightened men after all.”
“Life as a therapist is ruthless; circumstances that are helpful to one neurotic may crush another.”

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