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• This is satire. I am a satirist. Modern-day society has this obsession with needing to know every ounce of angst about performers` lives, to the point that it becomes more important than whether they can perform. [On his Broadway show Martin Short: Fame B... Martin Short
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• [on the characters in The Rules of Attraction (2002) and them as people] Bret Easton Ellis is a social satirist; I consider myself aligned with how he does things. Bret doesn`t write about that which he loves about the world, he writes about what disgusts... Roger Avary
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• The satirist is prevented by repulsion from gaining a better knowledge of the world he is attracted to, yet he is forced by attraction to concern himself with the world that repels him. Italo Calvino
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• In a more intellectually rigorous age, I wouldn`t be talked about as a satirist at all. I would just be a topical comedian. Rory Bremner
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• I`m not really a political satirist. I don`t kid myself. I`m more interested in doing the mannerisms and the personality. Rich Little
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• He has the obligation to society that any human being has. I don`t think a satirist has any greater obligation to society than a bricklayer or anybody else. Shel Silverstein
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• A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. John Dos Passos
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• The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself, but in so doing, he identifies himself with people--that is, people everywhere, not for the purpose of taking them apart, but simply revealing thei... James Thurber
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• The wit makes fun of other persons; the satirist makes fun of the world; the humorist makes fun of himself. James Thurber
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• A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. Adenaan Hardien
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