"Satire is people as they are; romanticism, people as they would like to be; realism, people as they seem with their insides left out."

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Source : Dawn Powell (1995). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965”

Dawn Powell

#Writing Quotes #People Quotes #Satire Quotes

“It's really surreal when I play shows, I'll have three or four people who are in the front row who are singing every word to my songs. The first time I experienced that I was like,"Are they mocking me? Is this a joke?" But it's not a joke. They actually identify with my music and that is something that I'm getting used to.”
“I was just a quiet kid, really. I wasn't the class clown at all.”
“The greatest part of all chronic disease is created by the suppression of acute disease by drug poisoning.”
“What we assume, what we have never clearly thought out, controls us.”
“In America, if a Democrat even thinks you're calling him liberal he grabs an orange vest and a rifle and heads into the woods to kill something.”
“The combination of a frivolous form and a serious subject immediately unmasks the truth about our dramas.”
“Love is blind and little did I know, you were just another dead end road. Paved with pretty lies and broken dreams.”
“Progress isn't made by early risers. It's made by lazy men trying to find easier ways to do something.”

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