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It just happened that the public happened to, uh, appreciate the satirical quality of these crazy things. -- Rube Goldberg
The satirical direction I have chosen is an indication of my disappointment in man, which is the opposite way of saying that I have high expectations for the human race. -- Jack Levine
Journalists who are devoted to strictly factual reporting take particular pleasure from satirical news outlets that have the liberty to laugh and even mock the hypocrisy that reporters and editors must simply observe without comment. -- Tom Rachman
My challenge as a satirical artist is how to present ideas to people to enable them to question and reexamine their beliefs. My hope is, that my work provokes people to look at things in a new way. -- Joey Skaggs
I'm not satirical in a traditional way. What I do is more about creating caricatures and cartoons. I am commentating on the nature of how we live through photography, and how you can twist an angle to create a different perception of a person. -- Alison Jackson
You may be witty, but not satirical. -- Horace Greeley
You cant be satirical and not be offensive to somebody. -- Tom Lehrer
You can't write good satirical fiction in America because reality will quickly outdo anything you might invent. -- Philip Roth
You simply cannot invent any conspiracy theory so ridiculous and obviously satirical that some people somewhere don't already believe it. -- Robert Anton Wilson
The Author is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. -- Tim Crouch
All truth is valuable, and satirical criticism may be considered as useful when it rectifies error and improves judgment; he that refines the public taste is a public benefactor. -- Samuel Johnson
Trivial details have been summoned, in part, to make a satirical point about upper-middle-class marriage-that the whole thing can slip away between the white wine and the arugula salad. -- David Denby
I wasn't playing Nixon's satirical stick figure. I was playing Nixon the man. As an actor, I felt I had to get to the deeply flawed humanity of the guy. -- Harry Shearer
I don't think the nature of my poetry is satirical or even ironic, I think it's essentially lyrical but again I don't know if it's my position to say what my poetry is like. -- Kenneth Koch
The style, often found difficult in the earlier books, is just as individual but more perfectly modulated to experience, and the dialogue is much closer to contemporary idiom, especially when those cadences have been masterfully twisted to satirical ends. -- Geoffrey Dutton
In my work, and in my psyche, there's some very sentimental, traditional, conventional side that's always in argument with a more radical, sarcastic side. Some of my stories are really sentimental, but they're layered over with weird, satirical stuff. -- George Saunders
I became a pedant of the form. I did my graduate work in art history and particularly in the history of French satirical cartooning. And that made me aware of what a rich and resilient tradition this seemingly scabrous sacrilegious magazine still represented in French life. -- Scott Simon
When I was younger, when I was a teenager, the work was more satirical and funny and cartoony. And part of it was chops - if you have a more limited repertoire of stick figures and cartoon characters, they lend themselves more to humor than to tragedy. -- Eric Drooker
It is certain that satirical poems were common at Rome from a very early period. The rustics, who lived at a distance from the seat of government, and took little part in the strife of factions, gave vent to their petty local animosities in coarse Fescennine verse. -- Thomas B. Macaulay
Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at least to see the negro adopt a slave religion, after chattel slavery was ended. It simply underlines the fact that consciously or unconsciously, weak humans desire the status of sheep, no matter what they say. -- Tom Metzger
I just think that the world of workshops - I've written a poem that is a parody of workshop talk, I've written a poem that is a kind of parody of a garrulous poet at a poetry reading who spends an inordinate amount of time explaining the poem before reading it, I've written a number of satirical poems about other poets. -- Billy Collins
Things are much more complicated. Feminism versus pornography, for example. There are a lot of feminists who think it is bad, but others think it's good. I have become, you might call it mature - I would call it senile - and I can see both sides. But you can't write a satirical song with 'but on the other hand' in it, or 'however'. It's got to be one-sided. -- Tom Lehrer
I eventually saw the satirical nature of caricaturing individuals. -- Jonathan Shapiro
I'm crushed by the responsibility of writing a satirical book. -- Al Franken
You can't be satirical and not be offensive to somebody. -- Tom Lehrer
Orwell is almost our litmus test. Some of his satirical writing looks like reality these days. -- John Pilger
I started out as a writer. Poetry and prose and also kind of satirical David Sedaris-esque stuff. -- Pauley Perrette
Most important to any fake story is a plausible, realistic edge with a satirical twist that is topical. -- Joey Skaggs
In my opinion, Lenny Bruce was more of an influence on Zappa's satirical lyric's than anyone that I know of. -- Jimmy Carl Black
SCTV' was the concept of a group ensemble doing satirical things. 'Saturday Night Live's sketches were broader than ours, more universal. -- Joe Flaherty
The fictional work is a kind of actor that wears a satirical garb but can put on other costumes as well. -- Will Self
'The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. -- Tim Crouch
I want to be part of movies that have important and interesting subjects but are not depressing and are rather satirical and funny. -- Terence Lewis
Ultimately, when I deliver something, a lot of times it will be from a black woman's perspective, but other times it will be just from a satirical, goofy perspective. -- Jessica Williams
Cummings' career as a writer - and a painter - was as wobbly as his love life. He tried his hand at playwriting, satirical essays, and even a dance scenario for Lincoln Kirsten. -- Billy Collins
If you go back to 'Pretty Fly,' it was a very popish song, but there was a satirical side to it, and I think that's cool. I like the idea that it's making people think just a little bit. -- Dexter Holland
Well, I think that if you sincerely try to imagine what life is like for another person - not in a mocking way, not in a satirical way, but in a sincere, compassionate way - I don't think that's exploitive. -- Curtis Sittenfeld
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I was greatly influenced by 'The Goons' and 'Monty Python' reconstituting what comedy was - it could come from a funny word, not just a set up and a pay-off. I liked the zaniness; they were satirical, slightly saucy and very literary in their references. -- Sanjeev Bhaskar
It would be easy to assume that the open letter is a symptom of the Internet age. Such is not the case. In 1774, Benjamin Franklin wrote an open letter to the prime minister of Great Britain, Lord North - a satirical call for the imposition of martial law in the colonies. -- Roxane Gay
Reviewers try to square the antics of a writer's life with the antics in the fiction. Even satirical verbal play is too often read and admired as autobiographical expression. And thanks to the democratic exposures of the web, it's easier than ever to document private experiences and divulge the most intimate secrets. -- Joanna Scott
I'm all in favor of people - myself included - going into the same territory if there's something that can be done with it. But if somebody says, 'Make a sequel to 'Heathers',' I feel like, no, someone should make a good movie that's a dark, satirical comedy that has that sensibility. -- Michael Lehmann
Burroughs is the greatest satirical writer since Jonathan Swift. -- Jack Kerouac
A satirical poet is the check of the laymen on bad priests. -- John Dryden
Since Christianity is in fact a slave religion, it is satirical at -- Tom Metzger
Good Humor is the best shield against the darts of satirical raillery -- Charles Simmons
Really, I protest-what is left for the satirical mind to invent when reality so surpasses it? -- Jude Morgan
Gradually compositions make an appearance again. Political - satirical - conceits expressed in one figure or a few. -- Paul Klee
I don't want to call the show [ "Mary and Jane" ] a satire because it is not, but there are satirical elements. -- Harry Elfont
There follows a little obscenity here, a dash of philosophy there, considerable whining overall, and a modern satirical novel is born. -- Renata Adler
The Author' is subtly unflinching in its satirical attack on certain practices in the creation of art and the mediation of violence. -- Tim Crouch
Italian politicians are too stupid to deserve my vote, but they can get over it with my critical, denunciatory, satirical, vitriolic and vituperative invectives. -- William C. Brown
I'm not trying to write a bleak and blistering screed against American civilization. I'm writing something that I hope is fun and satirical and full of possibility. -- Mark Russell
There's something whimsical, satirical, and silly about British humor, which Americans have always enjoyed, and lots of us come over here because we have an audience of people who enjoy it. -- Milo Yiannopoulos
Catch-22 is the greatest satirical work in English since Erewhon...remarkable... This is a book that I could wish everyone to read. It is a book which should help us feel more clearly -- Philip Toynbee
Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces. -- Jill Ciment
Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory. -- Francis Bacon
I'm easily persuaded that a really good novelist who gets inside somebody else's head could be serving a valuable purpose. I enjoy satirical novels that take a wry, humorous, ironic look at modern life. -- Richard Dawkins
I've always had a fondness for that satirical, Terry Gilliam - esque evil corporate megastructure, the kind of business that hangs banners that say making your life better as it throws kittens into the gears. -- Chris Hardwick
After the horrific massacre Wednesday at the French weekly satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, perhaps the West will finally put away its legion of useless tropes trying to deny the relationship between violence and radical Islam. -- Ayaan Hirsi Ali

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