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We will, of course, without hesitation use art to parody, ridicule, debunk, or criticize ideologies.
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One paradox of professional writing is that books written solely for money and/or acclaim will almost never be good enough to garner…
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God, what a ghastly enterprise to be in, though-and what an odd way to achieve success. I'm an exhibitionist who wants to…
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When I say or write something, there are actually a whole lot of different things I am communicating. The propositional content (i.e.,…
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Under fun's new administration, writing fiction becomes a way to go deep inside yourself and illuminate precisely the stuff you don't want…
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Of course, the fact that Dostoevsky can tell a juicy story isn't enough to make him great. If it were, Judith Krantz…
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Some words have to be explicitly uttered, Lenore. Only by actually uttering certain words does one really DO what one SAYS. 'Love'…
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You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing- your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about…
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Postmodern irony and cynicism's become an end in itself, a measure of hip sophistication and literary savvy. Few artists dare to try…
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No one can call themselves a writer until he or she has written at least fifty stories.
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Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an…
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No single, individual moment is in and of itself unendurable.
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Witticism. A sharp and clever remark, usually quoted and seldom noted; what the Philistine is pleased to call a joke.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Of all failures, to fail in a witticism is the worst, and the mishap is the more calamitous in a drawn-out and…
— Walter Savage Landor
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When Harel wished to put a joke or witticism into circulation, he was in the habit of connecting it with some celebrated…
— Unknown Author
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Such is life, my fellow-mummers-just like a poor player that bluffs and feints his hour upon the stage, and then cheapens down…
— Joseph Furphy
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I can resist anything but the temptation to make a clever witticism.
— Oscar Wilde
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A man often runs the risk of throwing away a witticism if he admits that it is his own.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
— Flann O'Brien
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When they were introduced, he made a witticism, hoping to be liked. She laughed extremely hard, hoping to be liked. Then each…
— David Foster Wallace
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Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got…
— John Green
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A witticism in an airport security line is like a Swiss tap - turn it on, and you instantly find yourself in…
— Shashi Tharoor
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Sometimes a witticism has no truth behind it.
— Michael Leunig
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A city (Paris) where great ideas perish, done to death by a witticism.
— Honore De Balzac
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