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1eaa19e 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? andrew clements oxemoron life wisdom inspirational paradox ironic beautiful Andrew Clements
9173706 "What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes." irony sex writing funny humor bukowski smoke alcohol cigarettes authors ironic writing-process drink writers sarcasm Charles Bukowski
83cbb5b People who didn't need people needed people around to know that they were the kind of people who didn't need people. irony humorous humor ironic Terry Pratchett
b7d54f3 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. war yossarian wwii ironic rights Joseph Heller
ce15137 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. dark inspirational defarge ironic angry Charles Dickens
4b9f87e 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. irony poem poetry funny obnoxious ego ironic Charles Bukowski
54e5559 "-"He loved her...It was noble of him. It was beautiful." -"It was stupid." -- humorous funny humor comical comedy sharp witty satire ironic Lloyd Alexander
df377ff Never ask an elf for help; they might decide your better off dead, eh? humor ironic page-207 orik random Christopher Paolini
3a081c4 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. funny feast joffrey sansa arya george-r-r-martin a-song-of-ice-and-fire winterfell ironic prince George R.R. Martin
c0e3c77 (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. irony humorous laughable ironic Terry Pratchett
829246d 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. death truth raw ironic talent Amy Harmon
47ccbda Fate has a twisted sense of humor. humor ironic Amelia Atwater-Rhodes
c151b49 Just to keep the bad dreams at bay, she took a swig out of a bottle that smelled of apples and happy brain-death. irony humor humorous-quotations ironic Terry Pratchett
efe1690 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. irony thoughts memories funny over-thinking broken-home cherry-pie the-mind iconoclast psychologist divorce childhood-memories simplicity ironic patriotism logic childhood symbolism psychology Gillian Flynn
5a8065e "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" ironic Margaret Mitchell
36a4ea3 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. ella-shepard ironic saving dying Beth Revis
6afefed [...] and I switched to English literature, where so many frustrated poets end as pipe-smoking teachers in tweeds. true ironic Vladimir Nabokov
69b5d90 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. verbosity wry ironic Anthony Powell
f2a5003 "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" -- ironic Warren Ellis
09a7fd3 Myrna was not astigmatic; the lenses were clear glass; she wore the glasses to prove her dedication and intensity of purpose. humor hipsters ironic John Kennedy Toole
4466768 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. ironic Raymond Chandler
69bed12 George: Who's afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha: I am, George. I am. illusion bittersweet-endings echo ironic-echo bittersweet ironic Edward Albee
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