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Society drives people crazy with lust and calls it advertising.

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Envy is the gasoline on which a competitive society runs.

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What is released in the explosion of laughter is a deep contradictory thing that is both joy and pain, mischief and madness, pleasure and panic.

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Accustomed to the veneer of noise, to the shibboleths of promotion, public relations, and market research, society is suspicious of those who value silence.

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Identity is memory; when memory disappears, the self dissolves and love with it.

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John Lahr

John Lahr

Born: July 12, 1941 (age 83)
Bio: John Henry Lahr is a British-based American theater critic, and the son of actor Bert Lahr. Since 1992, he has been the senior drama critic at The New Yorker magazine. His books include Joy Ride and Tennessee Williams: Mad Pilgrimage of the Flesh.
Known for:
  1. Joy Ride: Show People and Their Shows (2015)
  2. Show and Tell: New Yorker Profiles (2000)

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