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Terry Southern

When Kubrick decided to go the black comedy route with his movie, he thought of me to give it that flavor.

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

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There is no power on earth that can loosen a man's grip on his own throat

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I'm not interested in attacking, I'm interested in astonishing.

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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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