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parody

«Parody is homage gone sour.»
«Max Headroom, if overly exposed, could end up as just another Muppet Nothing would be more distressing than to witness a brilliant parody of TV turn into a TV cliche.»
«You can parody and make fun of almost anything, but that does not turn the universe into a caricature»
«It is old age, rather than death, that is to be contrasted with life. Old age is life's parody, whereas death transforms life into a destiny: in a way it preserves it by giving it the absolute dimension. Death does away with time.»
«He [Mick Jagger] moves like a parody between a majorette girl and Fred Astaire.»
«Parodies and caricatures are the most penetrating of criticisms.»
«The parody is the last refuge of the frustrated writer. Parodies are what you write when you are associate editor of the Harvard Lampoon. The greater the work of literature, the easier the parody. The step up from writing parodies is writing on the w»
«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»
«With monstrous head and sickening cry / And ears like errant wings, / The devil's walking parody / On all four-footed things.»
«Time is a wealth of change, but the clock in its parody makes it mere change and no wealth.»