If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing. (Carl Hiaasen)

If you write satire, the guilty pleasure these days is that there's just so much material about. On the other hand, if you have a family it can be depressing.

Carl Hiaasen

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