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Satire Quotes
On wit, critique, and the craft of satire.
These satire quotes draw a clear line between satire as lesson and parody as game, treating the form as something with real purpose. See our Ability quotes for related craft reflections.
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- Nov 07, 2020
All satire is blind to the forces liberated by decay. Which is why total decay has absorbed the forces of satire.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
'Post 9/11 Blues' is an observational satire about the surreal circus of fear at that time. It's a generational thing.
- Our
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- Nov 07, 2020
Verse satire indeed is entirely our own.
- Management
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wrote an ITV drama in the 1960s, a satire on management theory that starred Leonard Rossiter. I'm also a poet and have had work in the 'Spectator.'
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
Paul Verhoeven is one of my favourite directors. I love his ability to mash extreme violence with humour and satire.
- Nov 07, 2020
It is difficult not to write satire.
- Glass
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- Nov 07, 2020
Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like the George Romero films, which were really great, social satire movies; really twisted.
- Influence
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- Nov 07, 2020
But in terms of satire and comedy, our biggest and earliest influence was Mad magazine.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020