"Satire is focused bitterness."

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Leo Rosten

#Bitterness Quotes #Satire Quotes #Focused Quotes

“You shall judge a man by his foes as well as by his friends.”

Source : Lord Jim (1900) ch. 34
“Well, so it must be, for as man saw reality, so it became.”
“In Sales, you have to satisfy two people: One, your customer. Two, your Boss.”
“It's hard to field the ball when you have both hands around your throat.”
“Ideas without precedent are generally looked upon with disfavor and men are shocked if their conceptions of an orderly world challenged.”
“What would happen if capital succeeded in smashing the Republic of Soviets? There would set in an era of the blackest reaction in all the capitalist and colonial countries, the working class and the oppressed peoples would be seized by the throat, the positions of international communism would be lost.”
“I really am happy that I met my agency and my management company, because they see me as a person and not just a Latin woman.”

Source : "Daniella Alonso: A Back Stage Exclusive". Interview with Noah Laracy, www.backstage.com. September 28, 2010.
“A thought is a hard thing to control.”

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