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Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't three lefts make a right? Two wrongs don't make a right, but don't two negatives make a positive?
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andrew
clements
oxemoron
life
wisdom
inspirational
paradox
ironic
beautiful
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Andrew Clements |
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"What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes."
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irony
sex
writing
funny
humor
bukowski
smoke
alcohol
cigarettes
authors
ironic
writing-process
drink
writers
sarcasm
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Charles Bukowski |
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People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people.
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irony
humorous
humor
ironic
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Terry Pratchett |
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Morale was deteriorating and it was all Yossarian's fault. The country was in peril; he was jeopardizing his traditional rights of freedom and independence by daring to exercise them.
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war
yossarian
wwii
ironic
rights
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Joseph Heller |
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And a beautiful world we live in, when it is possible, and when many other such things are possible, and not only possible, but done-- done, see you!-- under that sky there, every day.
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dark
inspirational
defarge
ironic
angry
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Charles Dickens |
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sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted - stretched there upon my bed in the dark looking upward at the ceiling i get what many will consider an obnoxious thought: it's still nice to be Bukowski.
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irony
poem
poetry
funny
obnoxious
ego
ironic
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Charles Bukowski |
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"-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid." --
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humorous
funny
humor
comical
comedy
sharp
witty
satire
ironic
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Lloyd Alexander |
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Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh?
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humor
ironic
page-207
orik
random
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Christopher Paolini |
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We were talking about the prince,' Sansa said, her voice soft as a kiss. Arya knew which prince she meant: Joffrey, of course. The tall, handsome one. Sansa got to sit with him at the feast. Arya had to sit with the little fat one. Naturally.
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funny
feast
joffrey
sansa
arya
george-r-r-martin
a-song-of-ice-and-fire
winterfell
ironic
prince
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George R.R. Martin |
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(About sweeping).... What he was in FACT doing was moving the dirt around with a broom, to give it a change of scenery and a chance to make new friends.
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irony
humorous
laughable
ironic
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Terry Pratchett |
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I didn't know if his art was helping. But Moses's pictures were like that, glorious and terrible. Glorious because they brought memory to life, terrible for the same reason. Time softens memories, sanding down the rough edges of death. But Moses's pictures dripped with life and reminded us of our loss.
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death
truth
raw
ironic
talent
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Amy Harmon |
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Fate has a twisted sense of humor.
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humor
ironic
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Amelia Atwater-Rhodes |
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Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death.
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irony
humor
humorous-quotations
ironic
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Terry Pratchett |
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"A new baby! Why, Scarlett, this is a surprise!" he laughed, leaning down to push the blanket away from Ella Lorena's small ugly face." - Rhett Butler"
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ironic
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Margaret Mitchell |
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They thought more before nine a.m. than most people thought all month. I remember once declining cherry pie at dinner, and Rand cocked his head and said, 'Ahh! Iconoclast. Disdains the easy, symbolic patriotism.' And when I tried to laugh it off and said, well, I didn't like cherry cobbler either, Marybeth touched Rand's arm: 'Because of the divorce. All those comfort foods, the desserts a family eats together, those are just bad memories for Nick.' It was silly but incredibly sweet, these people spending so much energy trying to figure me out. The answer: I don't like cherries.
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irony
thoughts
memories
funny
over-thinking
broken-home
cherry-pie
the-mind
iconoclast
psychologist
divorce
childhood-memories
simplicity
ironic
patriotism
logic
childhood
symbolism
psychology
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Gillian Flynn |
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How ironic it would be, to die at his hands while trying to save him, when he first came to me because he was trying to save me.
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ella-shepard
ironic
saving
dying
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Beth Revis |
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[...] and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds.
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true
ironic
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Vladimir Nabokov |
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He gave me a look of great contempt; as I supposed, for venturing, even by implication, to draw a parallel between a lack of affluence that might, literally, affect my purchase of rare vintages, and a figure of speech intended delicately to convey his own dire want for the bare necessities of life. He remained silent for several seconds, as if trying to make up his mind whether he could ever bring himself to speak to me again; and then said gruffly: 'I've got to go now.
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verbosity
wry
ironic
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Anthony Powell |
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"A Kenyan man once said to me, 'You can get used to anything when money's involved.' He used to stick mice up his ass for twenty bucks at a time." -Spider Jerusalem" --
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ironic
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Warren Ellis |
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Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose.
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humor
hipsters
ironic
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John Kennedy Toole |
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Gano muchisima pasta. Tengo que ganar muchisima pasta para untar a los tipos a los que tengo que untar para ganar muchisima pasta y untar asi a los tipos que tengo que untar.
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ironic
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Raymond Chandler |
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George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am.
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illusion
bittersweet-endings
echo
ironic-echo
bittersweet
ironic
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Edward Albee |