"Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it?"

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Source : Jude Morgan (2012). “An Accomplished Woman”, p.40, Hachette UK

Jude Morgan

#Reality Quotes #Mind Quotes #Satirical Quotes

“I had to be careful. A mistake I made when I submitted ideas initially was that one of them was too much like Elephant and Piggie, thinking that was what it needed to be. That's not what Mo was looking for. But I did definitely keep them in the back of my mind. It was tricky. Like Mo Willems was saying, it had to be something that Elephant and Piggie would like to read, yet we shouldn't make anything that was too much like Elephant and Piggie, because why would you want to do that?”

Source : Source: www.hbook.com
“[The word class has] been excised from the acceptable political vocabulary, except in the limited usage of right-wingers when they accuse liberals of inciting 'class warfare' - a charge that means it's okay for rich people to vote their economic interests but it's not all right to encourage poor people to do so.”
“What makes bad writers so annoying is their good passages.”
“Let's face it, in America today we don't have a health care system, we have a sick care system.”
“I grew up doing martial arts, and it's one of these things where I always kind of liked acting, but I was never real serious about it.”

Source : Interview with Nathan Rabin, www.avclub.com. April 10, 2009.
“I'm not buddy-buddy with the players. If they need a buddy, let them buy a dog.”

Source : Whitey Herzog, Kevin Horrigan (1988). “White Rat: A Life in Baseball”, HarperCollins
“I've flown across America, I've scaled fences, I've stood under windows and gone out of my way hundreds of times. I'm a hopeless romantic. There's no hope for me.”
“What wretched poverty of language! To compare stars to diamonds!”

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