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Tag Name "Irony" (300)

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Irony is based on insecurity people like to not like things because they don't understand them.
Justin Vernon
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Irony deals with opposites it has nothing to do with coincidence.
George Carlin
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Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
George Saunders
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Irony is wasted on the stupid
Oscar Wilde
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Irony is the hardest addiction of all. Forget heroin. Just try giving up irony, the deep-down need to mean two things at once, to be in two places at once, not to be there for the catastrophe of a fixed meaning.
Edward St Aubyn
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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge.
Mason Cooley
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Irony has only emergency use. Carried over time it is the voice of the trapped who have come to enjoy their cage.
Lewis Hyde
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Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I .
Soren Kierkegaard
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Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom.
Anatole France
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Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.
Scott Westerfeld
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Irony is the bringing together of two contradictory truths and to make out of the contradiction a new truth, with a laugh or a smile.
Anne Hathaway
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Irony, perfect definition: that for which I want to possess it, I would no longer want once I possessed it.
Karen Marie Moning
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Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.
George W. S. Trow
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irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.
John Updike
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Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
Gaston Bachelard
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Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
Paul Horgan
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Irony is to the high-bred what billingsgate is to the vulgar and when one gentleman thinks another gentleman an ass, he does not say it point-blank, he implies it in the politest terms he can invent.
Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment.
Edwin Percy Whipple
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irony is an indispensable ingredient of the critical vision it is the safest antidote to sentimental decay.
Ellen Glasgow
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Irony: While we increasingly hold people more responsible if they drink and drive, we hold women less responsible if they drink and have sex.
Warren Farrell
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do
Soren Kierkegaard
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Irony limits, finitizes, and circumscribes and thereby yields truth, actuality, content it disciplines and punishes and thereby yields balance and consistency.
Soren Kierkegaard
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Irony and pity are two good counselors: one, in smiling, makes life pleasurable the other, who cries, makes it sacred.
Anatole France
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Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter not to make polemical points but because I am interested in the human imprint on the landscape. I paint the landscape of my time and place with the stuff in it.
James Howard Kunstler
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