Quote by Carl Hiaasen
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My books are shelved in different places, depending on the bookstore. Sometimes they can be found in the Mystery section, sometimes in the Humor department, and occasionally even in the Literature aisle, which is somewhat astounding. – Carl Hiaasen

Other quotes by Carl Hiaasen

Heres my rule: You always want to pay cash for your own books, because if they look at the name on the credit card and then they look at the name on the book jacket, then theres this look of such profound sympathy for you that you had to resort to this. It really is withering. – Carl Hiaasen

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Sympathy
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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because youre on the front lines. – Carl Hiaasen

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Anger
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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that death panels would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, its hard to beat Sarah Palins ignorant nattering on the subject. – Carl Hiaasen

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Death
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Humor
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Insult is powerful. Insult begets both rage and humor and often at the same time. – Suzanne Fields

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Humor

That is the saving grace of humor, if you fail no one is laughing at you. – A. Whitney Brown

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Humor

I think up until the point when we started in the business, which was in the early 70s, most of the humor was political. The smart humor was political satire. – David Zucker

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Humor

Humor is merely tragedy standing on its head with its pants torn. – Irvin S. Cobb

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Humor

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Love is the flower youve got to let grow. – John Lennon

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More people than ever are slowly but surely turning their ears toward poetry. – Saul Williams

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It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years theyve really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on. – Nigel Cole

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Forgiveness is the answer to the childs dream of a miracle by which what is broken is made whole again, what is soiled is made clean again. – Dag Hammarskjold

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