"Satire is dependent on strong beliefs, and on strong beliefs wounded."

-- Anita Brookner

#Strong Quotes #Belief Quotes #Satire Quotes

“The best way to keep a prisoner from escaping is to make sure he never knows he's in prison.”
“I want to eat good Italian food and get better at their language. It seems so romantic too.”
“If you don't love yourself, I'll make you see your own heart.”

Source : Song: I'm With Whateva, Album: Duets: The Final Chapter, 2005
“He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.”
“Now I am . . . like anyone with a strong preference for the fly rod, totally indifferent to how large a fish I catch by comparison with other fishermen. So when a fifteen-year-old called Fred, fishing deep in midsummer with a hideous plastic worm, caught a four and a half pounder . . . I naturally felt no resentment beyond wanting to break the kid's thumbs.”
“Our world was Northern, black and white, so it was a great thing for my sisters and me to sit down at Christmastime and watch these fabulous MGM musicals. All that color, all those beautiful costumes.”
“Stylized acting and direction is to realistic acting and direction as poetry is to prose.”
“I shall never forget the despair and agony on the parents' faces on the awful day of the funeral when the 13 little children, victims not only of John D. Rockefeller, but of the government of the state of Colorado were buried.”

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