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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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In a secular age, an authentic miracle must purport to be a hoax, in order to gain credit in the world. – Angela Carter

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Age
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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

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Sleep
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Angela Carter
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Other Quotes from
Comedy
category

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

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Comedy

We mustnt complain too much of being comedians — its an honorable profession. If only we could be good ones the world might gain at least a sense of style. We have failed — thats all. We are bad comedians, we arent bad men. – Graham Greene

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Comedy

Comedy deflates the sense precisely so that the underlying lubricity and malice may bubble to the surface. – Paul Goodman

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Comedy

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

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Comedy

Random Quotes

One must be a god to be able to tell successes from failures without making a mistake. – Anton Chekhov

Category:
Failure

Guests, like fish, begin to smell after three days. – Benjamin Franklin

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Guests

I have sung for Americans of every political persuasion, and I am proud that I never refuse to sing to an audience, no matter what religion or color of their skin, or situation in life. – Pete Seeger

Category:
Religion

The day after the day that I walk out the front door and the air is crisp, with just a hint of the Autumn days ahead, I put cinnamon in my coffee. – Betsy Cañas Garmon, www.wildthymecreative.com

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Autumn