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Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. - Angela Carter

Comedy is tragedy that happens to other people. – Angela Carter

Other quotes by Angela Carter

Pornographers are the enemies of women only because our contemporary ideology of pornography does not encompass the possibility of change, as if we were the slaves of history and not its makers. Pornography is a satire on human pretensions. – Angela Carter

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Pornography
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Angela Carter
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The bed is now as public as the dinner table and governed by the same rules of formal confrontation. – Angela Carter

Category:
Sleep
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Angela Carter
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Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms. – Angela Carter

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Experience
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Angela Carter
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Other Quotes from
Comedy
category

Humorists can never start to take themselves seriously. Its literary suicide. – Erma Bombeck

Category:
Comedy

I always loved comedy, but I never knew it was something you could learn to do. I always thought that some people are born comedians … just like some people are born dentists. – Paul Reiser

Category:
Comedy

If I get a hard audience they are not going to get away until they laugh. Those seven laughs a minute — Ive got to have them. – Ken Dodd

Category:
Comedy

Comedy, like sodomy, is an unnatural act. – Marty Feldman

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Comedy

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Further, for once, I like the idea that people who think Im a constant voice for the furthering of the imagination have to see that interest in a more materialistic fashion. – Peter Sotos

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Imagination

Forgive many things in others nothing in yourself. – Ausonius

Category:
Forgiveness

There is a real patriotism underneath the best of my music but it is a critical, questioning and often angry patriotism. – Bruce Springsteen

Category:
Patriotism

The soul would have no rainbow had the eyes no tears. – John Vance Cheney

Category:
Broken Hearts