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

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Terry Southern
Age: 71 †
Born: 1924
Born: May 1
Died: 1995
Died: October 29
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After Strangelove I also started work on an adaptation of The Collector.
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I learned not to care ... and to write for an imaginary reader whose tastes were similar to my own.
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I met The Beatles and Stones at the same time, because Michael Cooper was doing several of their album covers.
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Writing on a contract for a major studio you get the very best.
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An angel has no memory.
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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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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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Grossing Out dealt with the western nations selling arms to the Third World and exploiting these countries.
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You can't do the end of the world in a conventionally dramatic way or Boy Meets Girl way.
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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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Sometimes we would be staked out in the middle of the river, several barges tied together. So we could party.
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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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In that sense, film is superior, but the difficulty is your lack of control as a writer.
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