"Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous."

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Source : Tony Hendra (1987). “Going Too Far”, Dolphin Books

Tony Hendra

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“A normal feminine influence in recasting our religious assumptions will do more than any other one thing to improve the world.”
“Atheists put on false courage and alacrity in the midst of their darkness and apprehensions, like children who, when they fear to go in the dark, will sing for fear.”
“Of course it does, Jomes answered earnestly. Many of life's treasures remain hidden from us simply because we never search for them. Often we do not ask the proper questions that might lead us to the answer to all our challenges. We are so caught up in fear and regret, that hope seems a foolish endeavor. Proof of hope, however, is not only possible, it is an overlooked law of the universe.”
“I am a hobbyist photographer so I relate to the visual arts that way, but Im not a painter.”
“Jas in the Arab language is despair, And Min the darkest meaning of a lie. Thus cried the Jessamine among the flowers, How justly doth a lie Draw on its head despair! Among the fragrant spirits of the bowers The boldest and the strongest still was I. Although so fair, Therefore from Heaven A stronger perfume unto me was given Than any blossom of the summer hours.”

Source : Charles Godfrey Leland (1872). “The Music-lesson of Confucius, and Other Poems”, p.32
“I'm a little kid at heart, so my eyes light up when everything is lit.”

Source : Source: www.elle.com
“There is the old catch-22 line that a mentally unstable person can't know, as per their illness, that they are unstable. But that was wrong. You can and do have the insight to see your own crazy.”
“To live is to war with trolls.”

Source : Henrik Ibsen (1972). “The Oxford Ibsen: Brand. Peer Gynt”

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