1,006 Quotes About Satire
- Author Friedrich Reck-Malleczewen
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My dear countrymen, I hope that you will live to see the day when you learn to believe in other gods than a few movie whores and a couple of prize-fighters.
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- Author David Foster Wallace
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A question, doctor," he said. "Why doesn't the coyote take the money he spends on bird costumes and catapults and radioactive road runner food pellets and explosive missiles and simply go eat Chinese?" He smiled coolly. "Why doesn't the coyote simply go eat Chinese food?
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- Author Juan Marsé
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¿Qué otra cosa podía esperarse de los jóvenes universitarios en aquel entonces si hasta los que decían servir a la verdadera causa cultural y democrática del país eran hombres que arrastrarían su adolescencia mítica hasta los cuarenta años?Con el tiempo, unos quedarían como farsantes y otros como víctimas, la mayoría como imbéciles o como niños, alguno como sensato, generoso y hasta premiado con futuro político, y todos como lo que eran: señoritos de mierda.
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- Author Billy Collins
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And you are certainly not the pine-scented air.There is just no way that you are the pine-scented air
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- Author Kiran Nagarkar
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In the meanwhile, just see how profitable the fruits of non-violence are in this life. You stay pure while someone else, someone like me and my Rajput clan, does the sinning and the killing. While you religiously refrain yourself from bloodying your hands, you lend vast sums of money to finance the mightiest armies at minuscule decimal point percentages which add up to monstrous sums of interest.
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- Author Don DeLillo
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Steffie took my hand and we walked past the fruit bins, an area that extended about forty-five yards along one wall. The bins were arranged diagonally and backed my mirrors that people accidentally punched when reaching for fruit in upper rows.
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- Author Anita Nair
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He was too smitten by his second wife and the sons she produced easily and regularly at eighteen-month intervals to bother too much about a daughter.
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- Author Evelyn Waugh
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We schoolmasters must temper discretion with deceit.
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- Author Bobbi A. Chukran
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I can fly around the world in one night. I can wink and go up a chimney in a split second. I can be in 500 shopping malls on the same weekend. I can even fit enough gifts for the entire world into one tiny sleigh pulled by eight tiny reindeer, but I CANNOT FIX THIS CONFOUNDED COMPUTER!
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