Painterly grapefruit half propped against red velvet beneath a warm spotlight.

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Rod Serling

Hollywood's a great place to live...if you're a grapefruit.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

The statement begins by praising Hollywood as a place to live, then restricts that praise to a grapefruit. The absurd qualification overturns the apparent recommendation. Its dry humour depends on making a human question about living somewhere receive an unexpectedly botanical answer.

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