"Satires which the censor can understand are justly forbidden"

-- Karl Kraus

#Censorship Quotes #Satire Quotes #Forbidden Quotes

“To accpet the world as boring or accpet oneself as boring? Which is really more agreeable? There's bound to be some amount of ambiguity and uncertainty.”
“Living alone makes it harder to find someone to blame.”
“I was small but slow as a college tackle.”
“Will you say England belongs to other nationals because they are there in largenumbers?”
“I did a lot of work with early 20th century attitudes, the kind of superficial notions and behavior that prompt people who don't know history very well to think that "people were different back then" - but beneath all that are characters who react in ways that we can all recognize, and will always be able to recognize.”

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“I think that's the fascinating thing that exists now. This contrasts with a celebrity art and celebrity music culture.”
“Christy Barritt's novel, Hazardous Duty, is a delightful read from beginning to end. The story's fresh, engaging heroine with an unusual occupation hooked me, and I couldn't put it down. I highly recommend Hazardous Duty.”
“I write lyrics really fast. When it's time to write, I usually put them off until the very end and then when it's time to write I can just sit down: I sing the melody, whatever the melody is, because that's the first thing that's already been there for a long time; I start singing it and I start creating consonants and vowels; then they turn into words; then all of the sudden one sentence will happen; then that sentence will dictate how the rest of the sentences happen.”

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