Jonathan Swift Quotes
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The opposite is beneficial; from things that differ comes the fairest attunement; all things are born through strife.
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You see a lot of smart guys with dumb women, but you hardly ever see a smart woman with a dumb guy.
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If we understood the awesome power of our words, we would prefer silence to almost anything negative.
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I really love school, but I'd love to continue acting jobs if I can.
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It does make sense to put on some songs that are relatively short, because radio usually only plays songs that are less than 4 or 5 minutes.
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As a human being, Joan Crawford is a great actress.
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I like to write a lot of satire.
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Satire doesn't effect change.
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Hollywood is horrible... it's beyond satire.
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Satire has been a sanctuary historically monopolized by progressives, originally used as a discreet tool against Western religious fundamentalism.
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A little wit and a great deal of ill-nature will furnish a man for satire; but the greatest instance of wit is to commend well.
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The greatest offence against virtue is to speak ill of it.
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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.
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Satire is the disease of art.
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Satire is an art best practiced behind the back of the intended target. I think inviting politicians on a satirical show becomes a very big trap. Because one of two things happen: Either you have to kind of unsharpen your fangs because you can't be quite as cruel to people to their face as you are behind their backs... Or you don't defang, and those guests get the word and they stop coming.
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I'm a happy-go-lucky character. I'm not that miserable. But I can never let anyone into my world.
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Satire, being levelled at all, is never resented for an offence by any.
