The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word … - Terry Southern - Quotesmemo.com

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He who has little will receive. He who has much will be embarrassed.

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Terry Southern

The important thing in writing is the capacity to astonish. Not shock - shock is a worn-out word - but astonish.

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I don't know why, but I always feel a kind of necessity to write things that are beyond acceptance, that are too offensive or something. For people to read them and say, Ha-ha-ha, very funny. No, we can't print that.

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An absolutely devastating ridicule of all that is false, primitive, and vicious in current American life: the abuses of power, hero worship, aimless violence, materialistic obsession, intolerance, and every form of hypocrisy.

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Someone wrote a piece about Henry Green in The Partisan Review that was so intriguing that I got one of his novels, Loving, I believe, which was the first that came to attention in the United States.

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