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Letter "S" » satire
«Praise undeserv'd is satire in disguise»
Author: Henry Broadhurst
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satire
«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.»
Author: Angela Carter
(Novelist, Writer)
| Keywords:
contemporary, contemporary history, encompass, encompassed, encompasses, encompassing, ideology, Makers, pornographer, pornographers, pornography, pretensions, satire, Satires
«Comedy has to be done en clair. You can't blunt the edge of wit or the point of satire with obscurity. Try to imagine a famous witty saying that is not immediately clear.»
Author: James Thurber
(Writer)
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blunt, Clair, en clair, Famous Or, not famous, obscurity, satire, witty
«Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.»
«In times like these it is difficult not to write satire»
«Satire is tragedy plus time. You give it enough time, the public, the reviewers will allow you to satirize it. Which is rather ridiculous, when you think about it.»
«People say satire is dead. It's not dead; it's alive and living in the White House.»
Author: Robin Williams
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alive, house, House of the Dead, satire, Satires, The White, The White House, white, White House
«Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet»
«I'll publish, right or wrong: / Fools are my theme, let satire be my song.»
Author: Lord Byron
| About:
Fool,
Literary,
Satire,
witty,
Writing
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publish, Right or Wrong, satire, Satires, theme, theme song
«If goodness were only a theory, it were a pity it should be lost to the world. There are a number of things, the idea of which is a clear gain to the mind. Let people, for instance, rail at friendship, genius, freedom, as long as they will --the very names of these despised qualities are better than anything else that could be substituted for them, and embalm even the most envenomed satire against them.»
Author: William Hazlitt
(Writer)
| Keywords:
despised, embalm, embalming, embalms, for instance, instance, rail, satire, substituted
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