1,034 Quotes About Irony
- Author Paul Graham
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Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it.
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- Author BadSquirrel
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Story Content Warning: There will be angst, sex, a little rough language and rampant lesbianism. If this is not your cup of tea, don't drink it. If you are not old enough to read this, you will be soon. It might be in your best interest to wait until you are older. If you live in a place where this is not legal... why are you still living there? Maybe it's time for you to move on.
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- Author Mindy Kaling
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I think sometimes people think cheerful is a synonym for dumb, so no one is ever cheerful.
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- Author John Boyne
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Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one.
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- Author Max Frisch
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You can put anything into words, except your own life
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- Author Sarah Mlynowski
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Yup, believe it: I was born on March 28, yet my name is April.
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- Author Nick Hornby
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That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
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- Author Samuel Park
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Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us never think about us as much as we think about them, and that is the ultimate irony: their deeds live inside us, festering, while they live out in the world, plucking peaches off trees, biting juicily into them, their minds on things lovely and sweet.
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- Author E.A. Bucchianeri
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... a man doesn't like to have his ego popped, especially when he prides himself on his sagacity, and then to be proved wrong by a man who claims he doesn't know anything.
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