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Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Satire is moral outrage transformed into comic art.

Philip Roth

Art, Humor, Moral

Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism! You must achieve mastery over your idealism, over your virtue as well as over your vice, aesthetic mastery over everything that drives you to write in the first place - your outrage, your politics, your grief, your love!

Philip Roth

Art, Grief, Writing

Philip Roth (1998). “I Married a Communist”, p.230, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt