1,006 Quotes About Satire
- Author Caroline Kepnes
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It's the little things that make you want to kill someone, the way Milo drinks Diet Dr Pepper and ties his Jewfro in a bun and lifts his shirt to show off his stomach and wipes his glasses down even though they're not dirty. Yes, Milo got glasses, and seafoam green Topsiders, and a navy blue Polo-style shirt with a popped collar, and didn't I already kill this guy when he was schilling Home Soda and fucking Guinevere Beck?
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- Author Caroline Kepnes
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The song "Born in the U.S.A." comes on and he groans. "I hate Bruce Springsteen," he says. "Can we do something about this? Goddamn whiny Democrat, we get it. You're from New Jersey and you think it's cool to be poor. Just fuck off already.
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- Author Caroline Kepnes
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Dope guac," says some asshole, and I pick up a Dorito and shove it into the guac. There is nothing remarkable about this guac, about any guac, and California needs to calm the fuck down. They're just avocados. Guac is guac and while sometimes it's slimy and disgusting, it's never delicious.
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- Author Caroline Kepnes
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Everyone in this building is sleeping; Angelenos need beauty sleep. They need energy to make storyboards for web series and hike and talk about movies they'll never make and walk their dogs that hate them.
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- Author Caroline Kepnes
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At the counter, a different waitress flirts with an aspiring writer who's probably been trying to fuck her and finish his screenplay for months. He asks for a side of guac and she tells him that it's two dollars extra. That's how it works here. The guy who deserves free guac doesn't get free guac.
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- Author N.E. Gut.
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Ha! Well, there is the first illusion that we’ll be shattering now, isn’t it? I mean, it is not like you are the first, or the second, or even the third to come here. You are not even the tenth human, never mind the tenth being that has been through here. “And you think that they were all ‘chosen’ because they were ‘special’?
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- Author Ottessa Moshfegh
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Sleep is key. Most people need upwards of fourteen hours or so. The modern age has forced us to live unnatural lives. Busy, busy, busy. Go, go, go. You probably work too much.
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- Author Albert Cohen
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Those old hags downstairs were quite nauseating,' she said after another silence. 'I can't think why we stayed there listening to them. (You because you hunger for social contacts, however squalid. Me to lick the pebble of my unhappiness.)
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- Author Chandler Klang Smith
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He didn't have his top hat on when Swanny met him but he certainly does now. It's an impresario's chapeau, like his limo. Glossy, black and stretched. He wears a sharkskin suit today. He should look ridiculous in the daytime, but it's as though he's brought night into the room with him.
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