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There was a house we all had in common and it was called the past, even though we'd lived in different rooms.
Angela CarterAbout author
- Author's profession: Novelist, Writer
- Nationality: english
- Born: May 7, 1940
- Died: February 16, 1992
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The room was a machine that measured my codition: how much of me remained, how much of me was no longer there. I was both perpetrator and witness, both actor and audience in a theater of one. I could follow the progress of my own dismemberment. Piece by piece, I could watch myself dissapear.
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