Simone de Beauvoir
Philosopher, Writer
"Old age is life's parody."
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Parody
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Bruce Campbell
Actor
"I see parody as another form of comedy."
Leonard Cohen
Singer-Songwriter
"You have to keep cracking yourself open or you become a parody of yourself."
Aldous Huxley
Novelist, Essayist
"Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms."
Jennifer Stone
Actress
"One parody is worth a thousand polemics."
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"For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness."
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"Even hostile parodies admit from the start that the target has a distinct voice."
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"Mick Jagger moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire."
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"The most serious parody I have ever heard was this: In the beginning was nonsense, and the nonsense was with God, and the nonsense was God."
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"Is not parody the eternal lot of man?"
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