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My escape is to just get in a boat and disappear on the water.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: Boat Disappear Escape Get Just Water

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The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: Begin Bending Broadcast Coverage Every First Hurricane Must Palm Rule Trees Wind

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Good satire comes from anger. It comes from a sense of injustice, that there are wrongs in the world that need to be fixed. And what better place to get that well of venom and outrage boiling than a newsroom, because you're on the front lines.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: Anger Because Better Better Place Boiling Fixed Front Front Lines Get Good Injustice Lines Need Newsroom Outrage Place Satire Sense Than Venom Well World Wrongs You

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I think in the old days, the nexus of weirdness ran through Southern California, and to a degree New York City. I think it's changed so that every bizarre story in the country now has a Florida connection. I don't know why, except it must be some inversion of magnetic poles or something.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: Bizarre California Changed City Connection Country Days Degree Every Except Florida Know Magnetic Must New New York New York City Now Old Old Days Poles Ran Some Something Southern Southern California Story Think Through Weirdness Why York I Think

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You can do the best research and be making the strongest intellectual argument, but if readers don't get past the third paragraph you've wasted your energy and valuable ink.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: Argument Best Energy Get Ink Intellectual Making Paragraph Past Readers Research Strongest Third Valuable Wasted You Your

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I got overwhelmed by the magnitude of the celebrity culture in America. My background is as a news journalist, and newsrooms in the US are shrinking - investigation teams are being terminated or shrunk on newspapers all around the country. The one aspect that's expanded is coverage of celebrity culture.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: America Around Aspect Background Being Celebrity Celebrity Culture Country Coverage Culture Got Investigation Journalist Magnitude News Newspapers One Aspect Overwhelmed Shrinking Teams Us

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My books are character-driven. They're not driven by the story.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: Books Driven Story

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My driving record is not exemplary, but I have never had a speeding ticket over 100 m.p.h. I can say that unequivocally.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: Driving Exemplary Had Never Over Record Say Speeding Ticket Unequivocally I Can

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Nobody with an IQ higher than emergency-room temperature could ever believe that 'death panels' would be appointed to nudge the elderly toward euthanasia. Yet for idle entertainment, it's hard to beat Sarah Palin's ignorant nattering on the subject.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: Appointed Beat Believe Could Death Elderly Entertainment Euthanasia Ever Hard Higher Idle Ignorant Nobody Palin Sarah Subject Temperature Than Toward Would Iq

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Humor can be an incredible, lacerating and effective weapon.

~Carl Hiaasen

Topics: Effective Humor Incredible Weapon

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Writer

Born: March 12th, 1953

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