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Here's the problem: the description of the world is always reduced to yes or no, black or white. Superficial stories. Superhero stories. One side is the good one. The other one is evil.

Marjane Satrapi

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Marjane Satrapi
Age: 54
Born: 1969
Born: November 22
Actor
Animator
Comics Artist
Film Director
Illustrator
Novelist
Painter
Screenwriter
Songwriter
Visual Artist
Writer
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Superficial
Good
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Always
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World
Sides
Evil
White
Black
Superhero
Stories
Reduced

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