"You may not believe in magic but something very strange is happening at this very moment. Your head has dissolved into thin air and I can see the rhododendrons through your stomach. It's not that you are dead or anything dramatic like that, it is simply that you are fading away and I can't even remember your name."
— Leonora Carrington (The Hearing Trumpet)

"Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody."
— Leonora Carrington (The Hearing Trumpet)

"The task of the right eye is to peer into the telescope, while the left eye peers into the microscope.
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— Leonora Carrington