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Quote by Peter McArthur
A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself

A satirist is a man who discovers unpleasant things about himself and then says them about other people. – Peter McArthur

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There is no such thing as inner peace. There is only nervousness and death. – Fran Lebowitz

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The better I get to know men, the more I find myself loving dogs. – Charles de Gaulle

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There are some mortals who are never happy save when they have some hurt feelings to enjoy. – Author unknown, from Dallas-Galveston News, c.1894

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I would ask something more of this world, if it had something more. – Antonio Porchia, Voces, 1943, translated from Spanish by W.S. Merwin

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You have to have hope. Its irresponsible to give false hope, which I think a lot of playwrights are guilty of. But I also think its irresponsible to simply be a nihilist, which quite a lot of playwrights, especially playwrights younger than me, have become guilty of. – Tony Kushner

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