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An aphorism ought to be entirely isolated from the surrounding world like a little work of art and complete in itself like a hedgehog.


Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel


#art #complete #entirely #hedgehog #isolated

...the very greatest satire, I came to think -- the kind that lives forever -- ultimately grew out of a debunking attitude toward the self. To see the world mock-heroically was necessarily to engage in a sort of preliminary self-burlesque. You couldn't take yourself *that* seriously. You were part of it. All the Lilliputian preening and pomposity was, at bottom, one's own.


Terry Castle


#satire #self-burlesque #attitude

Tired, tired with nothing, tired with everything, tired with the world’s weight he had never chosen to bear.


F. Scott Fitzgerald


#everything #heavy #never #nothing #tired

My inner goddess confirms that staring at a beautiful/rich/powerful face is the basis of True Love.


Jess C. Scott


#drama #fifty-shades #fifty-shades-of-grey #inner-goddess #love

He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.


David Baldacci


#ambition #beauty-pageants #ruthlessness #sarcasm #satire

He who does not tire, tires adversity.


Martin Farquhar Tupper


#does #tire #tires #who

Let Sporus tremble — "What? that thing of silk, Sporus, that mere white curd of ass's milk? Satire or sense, alas! can Sporus feel? Who breaks a Butterfly upon a Wheel?" Yet let me flap this Bug with gilded wings, This painted Child of Dirt that stinks and stings; Whose Buzz the Witty and the Fair annoys, Yet Wit ne'er tastes, and Beauty ne'er enjoys,


Alexander Pope


#beauty

Theatres are curious places, magician's trick-boxes where the golden memories of dramtic triumphs linger like nostalgic ghosts, and where the unexplainable, the fantastic, the tragic, the comic and the absurd are routine occurences on and off the stage. Murders, mayhem, politcal intrigue, lucrative business, secret assignations, and of course, dinner.


E.A. Bucchianeri


#actors #dinner #drama #dramatic #fantastic

I have one word to say upon the subject of profound writers, who are grown very numerous of late; and I know very well the judicious world is resolved to list me in that number. I conceive therefore, as to the business of being profound, that it is with writers as with wells; a person with good eyes may see to the bottom of the deepest, provided any water be there; and often, when there is nothing in the world at the bottom, besides dryness and dirt, though it be but a yard and half under ground, it shall pass however for wondrous deep, upon no wiser a reason than because it is wondrous dark.


Jonathan Swift


#writers #business

Eli Willard just looked at her for a long moment, and then he announced, 'Lady of the Lake strikes iceberg in mid-Atlantic; 215 drown. New York City fire destroys 700 buildings. Japanese earthquake kills 12,000. Worldwide cholera epidemic kills millions. Wages rise, but prices rise faster. Financial crash occurs on Van Buren's 36th day in office. Nation begins first great depression. Bank failures and closings spread like plague. 200,000 are unemployed. Business bankrupt; only pawnbrokers prosper. Van Buren declares ten-hour days on all federal jobs. There. Does that make you feel any better?


Donald Harington


#news #politics #satire #architecture






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