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Tag Name "Irony" (371)

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I think, in a written novel, the way in which you play with the readers' emotion or the way in which you engage the readers' emotions can be very indirect. You could come at it through irony or comedy, etcetera, and you could capture people's sympathies and feelings kind of by stealth if you like.
Salman Rushdie
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Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.
Mike Curran
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We Americans only voted for George Bush to prove to the British that Americans understand irony. Unfortunately, it kinda backfired.
Scott Capurro
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There is too much emphasis on technical perfection nowadays, and not enough on what music is actually about - irony, joy, human suffering, love.
Mstislav Rostropovich
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Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case.
Albert Camus
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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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I think here is the irony of American history. We don't have an established church. When you have an established church nobody takes religion as seriously as we do here. We have a free market in religion. The religious groups are competing with each other.
Eric Foner
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But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.
Dorothy L. Sayers
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I always thought the biggest failing of Americans was their lack of irony. They are very serious there! Naturally, there are exceptions... the Jewish, Italian, and Irish humor of the East Coast.
Colin Firth
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You love her, Teddy observed quietly. Henry replied with an uncharacteristic lack of irony: Yes. Teddy's eyes shifted to the plaster interlacing that decorated the ceiling in curlicues. Lord, you never make it easy, do you. No.
Anna Godbersen
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Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote no future for you! Don't let the irony be lost.
John Lydon
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People think the Beatles know what's going on. We don't. We're just doing it.
John Lennon
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There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time
Achille Castiglioni
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Irony differentiates. Cynicism never does.
Paul Horgan
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It [defending Salmon Rushdie] was, if I can phrase it like this, a matter of everything I hated versus everything I loved. In the hate column: dictatorship, religion, stupidity, demagogy, censorship, bullying and intimidation. In the love column: literature, irony, humor, the individual and the defense of free expression.
Christopher Hitchens
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It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
Tallulah Bankhead
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The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.
Mason Cooley
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The process of creativity, absorbing aspects of life and channeling it into something shared or tangible - that's my ideal brain food. The irony to this is that the more creative I have became, the less I listen to of other peoples music.
Richard Norris
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I live a very ordinary life. The rare awards ceremonies I go to are quite fun, because I can enjoy the irony of one minute walking to the tube, and the next being driven along the same stretch of road in a limo.
Jonathan Pryce
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Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.
George Saunders
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The problem is that once the rules of art are debunked, and once the unpleasant realities the irony diagnoses are revealed and diagnosed, 'then' what do we do?
David Foster Wallace
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Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed
Jay McInerney
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I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.
Jonathan Raymond
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Royal Young's writing is that rare blend of irony and beauty.
Simon Van Booy
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