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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people.

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Angela Carter
Age: 51 †
Born: 1940
Born: May 7
Died: 1992
Died: February 16
Author
Journalist
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Novelist
Science Fiction Writer
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Eastbourne
Sussex
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Stars on our door, stars in our eyes, stars exploding in the bits of our brains where the common sense should have been
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Pornography is a satire on human pretensions.
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And each stroke of his tongue ripped off skin after successive skin, all the skins of a life in the world, and left behind a nascent patina of shining hairs. My earrings turned back to water and trickled down my shoulders I shrugged the drops off my beautiful fur.
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A fairy tale is the kind of story in which one king goes to another king to borrow a cup of sugar
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