fd76736
|
"Do you remember me telling you we are practicing non-verbal spells, Potter?" "Yes," said Harry stiffly. "Yes, sir." "There's no need to call me "sir" Professor." The words had escaped him before he knew what he was saying."
|
|
rebellion
sarcasm
|
J.K. Rowling |
ab9e83c
|
"Death's got an Invisibility Cloak?" Harry interrupted again. "So he can sneak up on people," said Ron. "Sometimes he gets bored of running at them, flapping his arms and shrieking..."
|
|
humor
sarcasm
|
J.K. Rowling |
751864e
|
"Don't stop there. I suppose there are also, what, vampires and werewolves and zombies?" "Of course there are. Although you mostly find zombies farther south, where the voudun priests are." "What about mummies? Do they only hang around Egypt?" "Don't be ridiculous. No one believes in mummies."
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|
mummies
jace-wayland
werewolf
zombies
vampire
joke
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
ca394c5
|
"Why were you lurking under our window?" "Yes - yes, good point, Petunia! What were you doing under our windows, boy?" "Listening to the news," said Harry in a resigned voice. His aunt and uncle exchanged looks of outrage. "Listening to the news! Again?" "Well, it changes every day, you see," said Harry."
|
|
harry-potter
humor
news
sarcasm
|
J.K. Rowling |
e857b74
|
"Don't tell me," Jace said, "Simon's turned himself into an ocelot and you want me to do something about it before Isabelle makes him into a stole. Well, you'll have have to wait till tomorrow. I'm out of commission." He pointed at himself - he was wearing blue pajamas with a hole in the sleeve. "Look. Jammies." "Jace," Clary said, "this is important." "Don't tell me," he said. "You've got a drawing emergency. You need a nude model. Well, I'm not in the mood. You could always ask Hodge," he said as an afterthought. "I hear he'll do anything for a -" "JACE!" she interrupted him, her voice rising to a scream. "JUST SHUT UP FOR A SECOND AND LISTEN, WILL YOU?"
|
|
pijamas
jace-wayland
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
7b8d542
|
"I don't want tea," said Clary, with muffled force. "I want to find my mother. And then I want to find out who took her in the first place, and I want to kill them." "Unfortunately," said Hodge, "we're all out of bitter revenge at the moment, so it's either tea or nothing."
|
|
revenge
humor
hodge
tea
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
901968a
|
A diary with no drawings of me in it? Where are the torrid fantasies? The romance covers?
|
|
humor
jace-wayland
diary
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
a535246
|
"Alec looked at her and shook his head. "How do you manage never to get mud on your clothes?" Isabelle shrugged philosophically. "I'm pure at heart. It repels the dirt."
|
|
humor
dirt
city-of-ashes
isabelle-lightwood
clean
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
1fc6961
|
"Sebastian just smiled. "I could hear your heart beating," he said softly. "When you were watching me with Valentine. Did it bother you?" "That you seem to be dating my dad?" Jace shrugged. "You're a little young for him, to be honest." "What?" For the first time since Jace had met him, Sebastian seemed flabbergasted."
|
|
valentine-morgenstern
jace-wayland
sebastian
realization
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
1dc3227
|
Are you always a smartass?' Nope. Sometimes I'm asleep.
|
|
smartass
impudence
sarcasm
|
Jim Butcher |
55fc75c
|
It's fascinating. You know all these words, and they're all English, but when you string them together into sentences, they just don't make any sense.
|
|
humor
jace-lightwood
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
a0e1319
|
I don't do what I'm told, but I might do what you want if you ask me nicely.
|
|
imogen-herondale
impudence
rebelliousness
jace-wayland
sarcasm
obedience
|
Cassandra Clare |
908e8cd
|
"By the Angel," Jace said, looking the demon up and down. "I knew Greater Demons were meant to be ugly, but no one ever warned me about the smell." Abbadon opened its mouth and hissed. Inside its mouth were two rows of jagged glass-sharp teeth. "I'm not sure about this wind and howling darkness business," Jace went on, "smells more like landfill to me. You sure you're not from Staten Island?"
|
|
humor
taunting
jace-wayland
demon
teasing
fearlessness
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
88d36fb
|
"I turned to Dionysus. "You cured him?" "Madness is my specialty. It was quite simple." "But...you did something nice. Why?" He raised and eyebrow. "I am nice! I simple ooze niceness, Perry Johansson. Haven't you noticed?"
|
|
madness
humor
nice
percy-jackson
sarcasm
|
Rick Riordan |
8729670
|
This is what happened in love. One of you cried a lot and then both of you grew sarcastic.
|
|
relationships
sarcasm
|
Lorrie Moore |
9662f09
|
While the Clave disapproves of trespassers, oddly they take an even darker view of beheading and skinning people. They're peculiar that way.
|
|
humour
will-herondale
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
ea6b772
|
"You are your mother's trueborn son of Lannister." "Am I?" the dwarf replied, sardonic. "Do tell my lord father. My mother died birthing me, and he's never been sure." "I don't even know who my mother was," Jon said. "Some woman, no doubt. Most of them are." He favored Jon with a rueful grin. "Remember this, boy. All dwarfs may be bastards, yet not all bastards need be dwarfs." And with that he turned and sauntered back into the feast, whistling a tune. When he opened the door, the light from within threw his shadow clear across the yard, and for just a moment Tyrion Lannister stood tall as a king."
|
|
humor
dwarfs
tyrion-lannister
jon-snow
king
sarcasm
|
George R.R. Martin |
38c750a
|
"It's sarcasm, Josh." "Sarcasm?" "It's from the Greek, sarkasmos. To bite the lips. It means that you aren't really saying what you mean, but people will get your point. I invented it, Bartholomew named it." "Well, if the village idiot named it, I'm sure it's a good thing." "There you go, you got it." "Got what?" "Sarcasm." "No, I meant it." "Sure you did." "Is that sarcasm?" "Irony, I think." "What's the difference?" "I haven't the slightest idea." "So you're being ironic now, right?" "No, I really don't know." "Maybe you should ask the idiot." "Now you've got it." "What?" "Sarcasm."
|
|
irony
sarcasm
|
Christopher Moore |
4536aaa
|
I can be quite sarcastic when I'm in the mood.
|
|
sarcastic
sarcasm
|
J.D. Salinger |
c6460fe
|
"That seems like stealing, doesn't it?" Simon pulled a cup toward him. He drew the lid back. "Ooh. Mochaccino." He looked at Magnus. "Did you pay for these?" "Sure," said Magnus, while Jace and Alec snickered. "I make dollar bills magically appear in their cash register." "Really?" "No." Magnus popped the lid off his own coffee. "But you can pretend I did if it makes you feel better. So, first order of business is what?"
|
|
simon-lewis
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
575bd5d
|
"I don't profess any religion; I don't think it's possible that there is a God; I have the greatest difficulty in understanding what is meant by the words 'spiritual' or 'spirituality.'
|
|
understanding
writing
spirituality
spiritual
difficulty
possibility
atheist
sarcasm
|
Philip Pullman |
320044b
|
"Festus just detected a large group of eagles behind us--long-range radar, still not in sight." Piper leaned over the console. "Are you sure they're Roman?" Leo rolled his eyes. "No, Pipes. It could be a random group of giant eagles flying in perfect formation. Of course they're Roman!"
|
|
piper-mclean
percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
the-mark-of-athena
the-heroes-of-olympus
leo-valdez
sarcasm
|
Rick Riordan |
936320c
|
"The first time Calypso came to check on [Leo], it was to complain about the noise. "Smoke and fire," she said. "Clanging on metal all day long. You're scaring away the birds!" "Oh, no, not the birds!"
|
|
leo-valdez
sarcasm
|
Rick Riordan |
93ef1c5
|
I cannot speak well enough to be unintelligible.
|
|
humor
intelligibility
expression
sarcasm
|
Jane Austen |
34a8be4
|
That's the difference between irony and sarcasm. Irony can be spontaneous, while sarcasm requires volition. You have to create sarcasm.
|
|
sarcasm
|
Christopher Moore |
45cd6d4
|
"Hey, Carlos," the Professor says when he walks in. "How was REACH?" "It sucked." "Can you be more specific?" my guardian asks. "It really sucked," I elaborate, sarcasm dripping from every word."
|
|
humor
perfect-chemistry
sarcasm
|
Simone Elkeles |
f5dc1a3
|
"I was supposed to be waiting up here when you got back, only your Phoenix lot got in the way..." "Yes, they do that," said Dumbledore." --
|
|
humor
order-of-the-phoenix
malfoy
sarcasm
|
J.K. Rowling |
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 |
27ad477
|
"Thinking I'm a moron gives people something to feel smug about," Charles Wallace said. "Why should I disillusion them?" --
|
|
sarcasm
|
Madeleine L'Engle |
9e6741b
|
Simon: So were you following me? Or is it just an amazing coincidence that you happened to be on the roof of a building I was walking by when I got attacked? Jace: I was following you. Simon: Is this the part where you tell me you're secretly in love with me?
|
|
love
jace-lightwood
simon-lewis
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
fdb1743
|
Marriage is not a process for prolonging the life of love, sir. It merely mummifies its corpse.
|
|
marriage
humor
love
lack-of-feeling
lovelessness
married-life
matrimony
sarcasm
|
P.G. Wodehouse |
8e227bc
|
"... We are Nephilim; we fight our own battles." "That's not precisely true, is it?" said a velvety voice. It was Magnus Bane, wearing a long and glittering coat, multiple hoops in his ears, and a roguish expression. Clary had no idea where he'd come from. "You lot have used the help of warlocks on more than one occasion in the past, and paid handsomely for it too." Malachi scowled. "I don't remember the Clave inviting you into the Glass City, Magnus Bane." "They didn't," Magnus said. "Your wards are down." "Really?" the Consul's voice dripped sarcasm. "I hadn't noticed." Magnus looked concerned. "That's terrible. Someone should have told you." He glanced at Luke. "Tell him the wards are down."
|
|
malachi
magnus-bane
luke
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
8af6c58
|
"How are you feeling?" I leaned away from him. "Gross." Aiden frowned. "Gross?" "I haven't brushed my teeth or washed my face in days. Don't come near me." He laughed. "Alex, come on." "Seriously, I'm gross." I put my hand over my mouth. Ignoring my protests, he leaned over and brushed my string hair back. "You're as beautiful as always, Alex." I stared at him. He must not get out much."
|
|
funny
humor
alex
sarcasm
|
Jennifer L. Armentrout |
075fc68
|
"Then why are you here?" Emma demanded. "Oh, is this one of those missed-connections things? We met the other night, you felt a spark? Sorry, but I don't date trees." "I am not a tree." Iarlath looked angry, his bark peeling slightly."
|
|
sassiness
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
b3f5041
|
I don't know about your true form, but the weight of your ego sure is pushing the crust of the earth toward the breaking point.
|
|
humor
ferro
sarcasm
harry-dresden
|
Jim Butcher |
b75532e
|
"Yeah you can have a word," said Harry savagely. "Good-bye."
|
|
tell-off
wit
sarcasm
|
J.K. Rowling |
9f42187
|
"The mage pulled my knife out of his side and looked at it. "Nice knife." The voice was deep but female. I threw my second knife. The blade bit into the mage's chest. Shit. Missed the neck. "Here, have another one."
|
|
kate
fight
sarcasm
|
Ilona Andrews |
7e09a91
|
"Listen, Peaches, is what humans are all about," said the voice of Maurice. "They're so keen on tricking one another all the time that they elect governments to do it for them."
|
|
politics
humor
voting
trickery
sarcasm
|
Terry Pratchett |
d81ec44
|
"Give me a few minutes." "You have time." He sat in the grass. "Are you just going to sit there and watch me?" "Yes. Watching pretty peasant girls is what we poor little rich boys do best." "Peasant?" He shrugged. "You started the name calling."
|
|
flirting
sarcasm
|
Ilona Andrews |
8c648ef
|
"The Death Mist is not for helping!" Akhlys shrieked. "It shrouds mortals in misery as their souls pass into the Underworld. It is the very breath of Tartarus, of death, of despair!" "Awesome," Percy said. "Could we get two orders of that to go?"
|
|
percy-jackson
sarcasm
|
Rick Riordan |
b6dbab0
|
Young people, nowadays, imagine that money is everything. Yes, murmured Lord Henry, settling his button-hole in his coat; and when they grow older they know it.
|
|
money
old
imagine
know
young
sarcasm
|
Oscar Wilde |
a7d17d6
|
"We had and incident. I took care of it." "Really." Jace's voice dripped sarcasm. "Do you even know how to use that knife, Clarissa? Without poking a hole in yourself or any innocent bystanders?"
|
|
jace
mortal-instruments
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
1cc6b67
|
Thomas was an annoying wiseass who tended to make everyone he met want to kill him, and when I have that much in common with someone, I can't help but like him a little.
|
|
sarcasm
harry-dresden
|
Jim Butcher |
2217188
|
"Amy, Dan, and Nellie were sitting at a table in a conference room, examining reproductions of Franklin documents-some so rare, the librarians told her, the only copies existed in Paris. "Yeah, here's a rare grocery list," Dan muttered. "Wow."
|
|
humor
cahill
rare
sarcasm
|
Rick Riordan |
7c2ee03
|
By the way, if you get mad at your Mac laptop and wonder who designed this demonic device, notice the manufacturer's icon on top: an apple with a bite out of it.
|
|
christianity
spirituality
bible
humor
philosophy
apple-computer-inc
forbidden-fruit
garden-of-eden
macintosh
original-sin
jesus-shock
old-testament
laptop
apple
steve-jobs
mac
catholicism
theology
genesis
sarcasm
|
peter kreeft |
e96d5b6
|
Yes, heaven forbid I not be protected from tanks.
|
|
cars
sarcasm
|
Stephenie Meyer |
c3cc234
|
Sarcasm will make your tits fall off.
|
|
gullibility
sarcasm
|
Christopher Moore |
acdcdc2
|
"Why do you have a cigarette lighter in your glove compartment?" her husband, Jack, asked her. "I'm bored with knitting. I've taken up arson"
|
|
knitting
smoking
sarcasm
|
Audrey Niffenegger |
db95b07
|
I knew it was beautiful, but knowing something is beautiful and caring about it are two very different things, and I didn't care.
|
|
sarcasm
|
Maureen Johnson |
09fc36d
|
One day I'll work out what it is you are saying, my lad, and then you'll be in trouble.
|
|
sarcasm
|
Terry Pratchett |
de7bee1
|
Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That is the reason why, like Eve, they are so excessively anxious to get out of it.
|
|
escape
women
humor
eve
paradise
sarcasm
|
Oscar Wilde |
251b118
|
"Is this the girl?" Kieran's voice was very different: It sounded like waves sliding up the shore. Like warm water under pale light. It was seductive, with an edge of cold. He looked at Emma as if she were a new kind of flower, one he wasn't sure he liked. "She's pretty," he said. "I didn't think she'd be pretty. You didn't mention it." Iarlath shrugged. "You've always been partial to blondes," he said. "Okay, seriously?" Emma snapped her fingers. "I am right here. And I was not aware I was being invited to a game of 'Who's the Hottest?'" I wasn't aware you were invited at all," said Kieran. His speech had a casual edge, as if he was used to talking to humans. "Rude," said Emma."
|
|
sassy
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
899b96c
|
"... As could the sarcasm in her voice. "yes, she's bleeding to deat Lu upstairs, but i thought I'd avoid telling you right away, because I like to draw the suspense out."
|
|
isabelle-lightwood
sarcasm
|
Cassandra Clare |
19b4db7
|
"I thought you were a drunk." "A drunk?" "Bloodshot eyes, dirty clothes, getting home in the wee hours of the morning, making a lot of noise, grouchy all the time as if you had a hangover... what else was I to think?" He rubbed his face. "Sorry, I wasn't thinking. I should have showered, shaved, and dressed in a suit before I came out to tell you that you were making enough noise to raise the dead."
|
|
sarcasm
|
Linda Howard |
7cf7075
|
"I wanted to wake you straightaway, but I knew I had to wait several hours to ensure you were safely recovered." "What! How long has it been?" "Five minutes. I got bored."
|
|
humor
waking-up
nathaniel-hawthorne
safety
sarcasm
|
Jonathan Stroud |
b0ea433
|
He just waited until I stopped talking and said, 'Jesus, kid, you're almost a detective. All you need now is a gun, a gut, and three ex-wives. So what's your theory?
|
|
sarcasm
police
|
John Green |
87f09f3
|
"Just so you know, I get incredibly bored quite easily and you will be forced to be my source of entertainment. You'll kind of be like my own personal jester." I flipped him off. "Well that wasn't funny at all."
|
|
funny
deacon
sarcasm
|
Jennifer L. Armentrout |
119a9a0
|
"The earl shook his head, exhibiting a degree of frosty offense that could only be achieved by an aristocrat whose wishes had just been gainsaid. "I've never heard of a man being so eager to confess to the parent of a girl he's just ruined," he said sourly."
|
|
marcus
simon
sarcasm
|
Lisa Kleypas |
be99363
|
"Sam gave Captain Suicide a droll stare. "How did you die again? Oh wait, I know this. 'I can take 'em. I don't need to wait for reinforcements. I can do it myself.' How'd that work out for you again?"
|
|
sarcasm
|
Sherrilyn Kenyon |
5fe2c7f
|
"Just remember that you're on my list, Marcone. Soon as I get done with all the other evils in this town, you won't be the lesser of them anymore." Marcone stared at me with half-lidded eyes and said, "Eek."
|
|
humor
johnnie-marcone
sarcasm
|
Jim Butcher |
485f59e
|
"Where did you live before you came here?" I asked. "The moon," he said smoothly. "We left because the place had no atmosphere."
|
|
the-impossible-knife-of-memory
sass
sarcasm
|
Laurie Halse Anderson |
87a1804
|
Sarcasm is when you tell someone the truth by lying on purpose.
|
|
lying
lies
humor
truth
sarcasm
|
Chuck Klosterman |
542dda1
|
Vampires were always either trying to kill me, or own me. God I hated being popular.
|
|
sarcasm
vampires
|
Laurell K. Hamilton |
3b175d8
|
I suppose the latest thing is to sit back and let Mr. Nobody from Nowhere make love to your wife.
|
|
love
gatsby
funny-quotes
tom
sarcasm
|
F. Scott Fitzgerald |
1534957
|
If you are not going to be a comfort, have the decency to be an empty space.
|
|
sarcasm
|
Jennifer Crusie |
692f85c
|
"I forgot my purse of laughter when I dressed this mornin'," she told me. "Have you not bought anythin' the last few days? Prices have gone up. Pay or starve, it's all one to me."
|
|
humorous-comebacks
seller
inflation
sarcasm
|
Tamora Pierce |
b52c6be
|
Aww, did we masturbate through the tears last night?
|
|
sarcasm
|
Kresley Cole |
cb767f6
|
"Maybe," he said in a slow, rural drawl, "you could explain to me why I found you in the middle of an orgy." "Well," I said, "if you're going to be in an orgy, the middle is the best spot, isn't it."
|
|
humor
orgy
sarcasm
|
Jim Butcher |
59114ea
|
As a general rule, I preferred not to have my soul reaped.
|
|
the-last-olympian
percy-jackson
percy-jackson-and-the-olympians
soul
sarcasm
|
Rick Riordan |
dbb920d
|
The doctor seemed especially troubled by the fact of the robbery having been unexpected, and attempted in the night-time; as if it were the established custom of gentlemen in the housebreaking way to transact business at noon, and to make an appointment, by the twopenny post, a day or two previous.
|
|
sarcasm
|
Charles Dickens |
14e2e1d
|
"He made a sound of disgust in the back of his throat. "Oh thank you so much. That's what every man wants to hear about his name. You might as well call me 'Little Pecker' while you're at it and tell me you would love to have me go shopping with you for feminine hygiene products. Oh and by all means, carry a big, sparkling pink bag with flowers on it and make me hold it."
|
|
sarcasm
|
Sherrilyn Kenyon |
bb80bde
|
You know, sarcasm is the lowest form of wit.' 'And yet it is still extremely funny.
|
|
sarcasm
|
Cecelia Ahern |
6ff0378
|
"Not that I knew who you were until last month. But now that I've got you, I'm not letting you go." "You're not?" Blake stared at her in irritated confusion. What was her game? "Do you think I'm an idiot?" he spat out. "No," she said. "I've just escaped from a den of idiots, so I'm well familiar with the breed, and you're something else entirely. I am, however, hoping you're not a terribly good shot."
|
|
romance
idiocy
sarcasm
|
Julia Quinn |
e44960f
|
"Am dining at Goldini's Restaurant, Gloucester Road, Kensington. Please come at once and join me there. Bring with you a jemmy, a dark lantern, a chisel, and a revolver. S. H." It was a nice equipment for a respectable citizen to carry through the dim, fog-draped streets."
|
|
sherlock-holmes
sarcasm
|
Arthur Conan Doyle |
c89acc1
|
What tale do you like best to hear?' 'Oh, I have not much choice! They generally run on the same theme - courtship; and promise to end in the same catastrophe - marriage.
|
|
irony
marriage
women
empowerment
love
disharmony
subjection
discord
matrimony
storytelling
inequality
gender
courtship
sarcasm
|
Charlotte Brontë |
d069fd9
|
"Eragon went to see the dragon for the first time since it had spoken to him. He approached apprehensively, aware now that it was an equal. "Eragon." "Is that all you can say?" he snapped. "Yes." His eyes widened at the unexpected reply, and he sat down roughly. "
|
|
talk
the-inheritance
saphira
eragon
dragon
sarcasm
|
Christopher Paolini |
253343e
|
If you wish, I shall go personally to your City and knock together the heads of Perlith and Galooney.
|
|
luthe
sarcasm
|
Robin McKinley |
2522c54
|
"I'm working from the assumption it's going to go horribly wrong. If we get out of here with limbs intact and no aspen slivers in uncomfortable places, we're calling it a win." Merit/Jonah"
|
|
sarcasm
|
Chloe Neill |
9fa46a2
|
There, at her console, he dialed 594: pleased acknowledgement of husband's superior wisdom in all matters
|
|
superior
husband
sarcasm
|
Philip K. Dick |
5297ee4
|
Since I've moved here, you have shown up at my door eight times. I obey the laws, I pay my taxes, and I haven't even gotten a parking ticket in my entire time as a driver. Yet if anything at all happens in the neighborhood, you appear at my door. I bet if a meteorite fell somewhere in the subdivision, you would be here asking me if I personally launched it out of my doomsday cannon.
|
|
humour
nosy-officers
doomsday
sarcasm
|
Ilona Andrews |
6eba5b2
|
..her smile, which was her pretty feature, was never so pretty as when her sprightly phrase had a scratch lurking in it.
|
|
smile
sarcasm
|
Henry James |
fe09f7a
|
Where do you come up with these zingers, Clint? Do you own some kind of joke factory in Indonesia where you've got eight-year-olds working ninety hours a week to deliver you that kind of top-quality witticism? There are boy bands with more original material.
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sarcasm
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John Green |
d86bd00
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Were you born stupid, Heinrich, or did you have to study?
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sarcasm
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Robert A. Heinlein |
295709a
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"How can she create with all your negative energy?" "Yeah, man. You're bringing us down." "This is about as low as it gets," Ariel said. "Where did you get those ridiculous black berets?" Moth adjusted his recently donned beatnik attire. "This is what the hip cats wear , daddy-o." "Can you dig it?" Cobweb stroked a few wisps of fake chin hair, while the others nodded and snapped their fingers."
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sarcasm
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Lisa Mantchev |
330b718
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The sarcasm made a slight whistling noise as it flew over Loafers' head.
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sarcasm-humor
sarcasm
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Eoin Colfer |
95ffab7
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Every person you meet is waging his or her own war against a callous universe that is plotting against them.
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sarcasm
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Sherrilyn Kenyon |
c2cd724
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"You seem to know a lot about it," she said. "And you do subtleties." "Yeah. Like I've always wanted to destroy the Nine Worlds while committing suicide." "Well, there's no need to be rude," protested Sif."
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humour
loki
sarcasm
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Joanne Harris |
9a5880f
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It's kind of depressing, if you think about it. I mean, me being so young, and yet so cynical and suspicious.
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self
sarcasm
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Meg Cabot |
82d9127
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"We all love each other, Ange," I said impatiently, hating this whole conversation. "No, not like this," she went on relentlessly. "Fang loves you."......My mouth dropped open. How does she know this stuff? "Forget it! No one's getting married!" I hissed. "Not in New Hampshire or anywhere else! Not in a box, not with a fox! Now go to sleep, before I kill you! Oh yeah, like I got any sleep after that. - pg 35" --
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max
sarcasm
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James Patterson |
786a61f
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"Yes, I was standing on nothing but congealed starlight. Yes, I was walking up through a savage storm, the wind threatening to tear me off and throw me into the freezing waters of Lake Michigan far below. Yes, I was using a legendary and enchanted means of travel to transcend the border between one dimension and the next, and on my way to an epic struggle between ancient and elemental forces. But all i could think to say, between panting breaths, was, "Yeah. Sure. They couldn't possibly have made this an escalator."
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summer-knight
jim-butcher
sarcasm
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Jim Butcher |
869335a
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Twenty-three stories up and all I could see out the windows was grey smog. They could call it the City of the Angels if they wanted to, but if there were angels out there, they had to be flying blind.
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oxymoron
sarcasm
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Laurell K. Hamilton |
366db40
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"You don't have to make fun of it." "Actually I do," I said. "I make fun of almost everything."
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snark
teasing
sarcasm
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Jim Butcher |
27cacb2
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Well, child? Aren't you going to try to turn me into some kind of unspeakable creature? I don't think I shall bother, madam, seeing as you are making such a good job of it yourself!
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humor
sarcasm
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Terry Pratchett |
8e537d4
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"Well, bloody noses." I hug his coat tighter. "Those are definitely hot."
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funny
humor
hot
romantic-comedy
sarcasm
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Stephanie Perkins |
92852a8
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...Peabody had better retire to her bed; she is clearly in need of recuperative sleep, she has not made a sarcastic remark for fully ten minutes.
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wife-humor
sarcastic-humor
sarcasm
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Elizabeth Peters |
a9b1784
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...Though drowned was just as dead as any other way of dying.
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sadistic
sarcasm
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Mercedes Lackey |
380f181
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All depression has its roots in self-pity, and all self-pity is rooted in people taking themselves too seriously.
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irony
humor
philosophy
self-pity
pity
psychology
sarcasm
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Tom Robbins |
ca431b8
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REMIND ME AGAIN, he said, HOW THE LITTLE HORSE-SHAPED ONES MOVE.
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sarcasm
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Terry Pratchett |
f1cc814
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"Balekin and Orlagh are planning your murder," I say flustered. "Yes," he says lazily. "So why did I wake at all?"
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murder
joke
nonchalance
sarcasm
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Holly Black |
336e3db
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"They were shot with a shotgun and put in garbage bags and thrown under a bridge," Shrake said. "If it wasn't murder, it was a really weird accident."
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murder
shotgun
sarcasm
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John Sandford |
7ea97ab
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...even though I was getting better education at home than any of the kids in Toyah, I'd need to go to finishing school when I was thirteen, both to acquire social graces and to earn a diploma. Because in this world, Dad said, it's not enough to have a fine education. You need a piece of paper to prove you go it.
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sarcasm
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Jeannette Walls |
fef14b3
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"Yeah," Tamara said. "An old bowling alley. There must be a town not too far from here. But how could Aaron be there? And don't say something like 'working on his score' or 'maybe he's in a bowling league' or something like that. Be serious." Call leaned against the rough bark of a nearby tree and resisted the urge to sit down. He was afraid he wouldn't be able to get up again. "I'm serious. It might be hard to tell in the dark, but I have my most super-serious face on."
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humor
sarcasm
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Cassandra Clare and Holly Black |
d06ddb4
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"Picture a place called the Karma Kafe and it'll save me the bother of describing it. There was nothing in it you wouldn't expect, from the Buddha flowerpots to the wallpaper decorated with symbols that probably said, "If you bought this just because it looked pretty, may Buddha piss in your coffee, you culturally ignorant moron."
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sarcasm
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Kelley Armstrong |
e2139dc
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Don't sound so surprised. I have sensible moments, you know.
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nefret
sarcasm
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Elizabeth Peters |
e822fa1
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"This is where you all live?" Asked John as they ascended the stairs. "It's small." "This is just our Thanksgiving house," Scott muttered. "We have a house for every day of the year."
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sarcasm
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Adam Rex |
1a18d21
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Might have just been an innocent bystander, sir,' said Carrot 'What, in Ankh-Morpork?' 'Yes, sir.' 'We should have grabbed him, then, just for the rarity value
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humor
innocent-bystander
sarcasm
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Terry Pratchett |
e6760b7
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The one plentiful herds of magazine writers would continue to be culled - by the Internet, by the recession, by the American public, who would rather watch TV or play video games or electronically inform friends that, like, 'rain sucks!' But there's no app for a bourbon buzz on a warm day in a cool, dark bar. The world will always want a drink.
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drinking
change
bar
electronic-software
the-public
the-recession
electronic-revolution
bourbon
new-age
electronics
the-future
video-games
the-internet
recession
tv
alcohol
the-past
electronic-books
americans
changes
technology
sarcasm
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Gillian Flynn |
5f1b052
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"come humans, fulfill your evolutionary purpose adn build your hound a fire." Oberon"
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humor
sarcasm
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Kevin Hearne |
f99788f
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Edna restored the toffee to the centre of her tongue and sucking pleasurably, resumed her typing of Naked Love by Armand Levine. Its painstaking eroticism left her uninterested--as indeed it did most of Mr. Levine's readers, in spite of his efforts. He was a notable example of the fact that nothing can be duller than dull pornography.
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humour
pornography
sarcasm
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Agatha Christie |
52ef74f
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Out of the corner of my eye, I can see Felicity and Ann hunched over their ornaments as if they were fascinating relics from an archaeological dig. I note that their shoulders are trembling, and I realize that they are fighting laughter over my terrible plight. There's friendship for you.
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friendship
humor
felicity
gemma
doyle
sarcasm
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Libba Bray |
6f6694d
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"Is this the baby?" I said. Ma turned on me again. "What do you think it is?" she said. "A midget that can't talk?" --
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sarcasm
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George Saunders |
6ef977a
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If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul.
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sarcasm
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Julian Barnes |
644610c
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Oh, for the love of God. There is no agent more agent than you. I swear you have pin-striped ties encrypted into your DNA. When you die, the coffin is going to read Property of the FBI.
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humor
sarcasm
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Lisa Gardner |
f589ad7
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But there was no going back to that idyllic time when only one god wanted to kill me.
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irony
sarcasm
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Kevin Hearne |
f85a7f5
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With a sense of humor like that, you could make a living as a garbage man anywhere in the country.
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sarcasm
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jim butcher |
16dfe17
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If she hasn't learned to appreciate my sterling character and spectacular good looks by this time, it's not likely she will.
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romance
sarcasm
|
Elizabeth Peters |
afec1fa
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I was dead, and I hadn't even been able to attend my own funeral.
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funeral
sarcasm
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Meg Cabot |
56e4fb9
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I used to jog but it's bad for the knees. Too much beta carotene turns you orange, too much calcium gives you kidney stones. Health kills.
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humor
sarcasm
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Margaret Atwood |
22d4770
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"I once visited a place where they killed people by putting them in a chair. Not torture -- that was common enough; beds and chairs were very much the par when it came to getting people helpless and confined, to inflict pain upon them -- but actually set it up to kill them while they sat. They -- get this -- they either gassed them or they passed very high electric currents through them. A pellet dropped into a container beneath the seat, like some obscene image of a commode, producing a fatal gas; or a cap over their head, and their hands dipped in some conducting fluid, to fry their brains. You want to know the punch line? Yeah, [...] give us the punch line. This same state had a law that forbade -- and I quote -- "cruel and unusual punishments!" Can you believe that?"
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sarcasm
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Iain M. Banks |
18ec620
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"Miss Prendregast!" He rapped on his desk with his knuckles. "You were never in any danger!" "Except from the wild animals." His lids swept down as if he needed a reprieve from looking at her. "Alert me if you're attacked by a rabbit."
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sarcasm
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Christina Dodd |
41c42a9
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That's the spirit! Make it chicken broth or nothing. That's putting the old foot down. If she's determined to have a nervous breakdown, the least we can do is see that she doesn't have it in peace.
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sarcasm
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J. D. Salinger |
a39c3ea
|
"When she saw me, my mother stood up and started to come toward me, but then stopped. I think maybe Cat Poop had told her not to make any sudden movements because they might scare me, like I'm a wild animal or something, because she kept looking at him and then at me. Finally she just said, "Hello, Jeff," and sat down again next to my father."
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sarcasm
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Michael Thomas Ford |
c0964de
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"Yeah," Chris said. "I lose a couple limbs getting drunk and falling into harvesting combine, I'm an idiot. I lose the same limbs because I happened to be standing next to the right door when the ship was damaged, I'm a hero."
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humor
sarcasm
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James S.A. Corey |
256f4c5
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He'd been given an assignment to write about teen beauty pageants [...], which he'd accepted because he enjoyed blood sports as much as the next person.
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beauty-pageants
ruthlessness
shows
teen-beauty-pageants
ambition
satire
teenagers
sarcasm
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David Baldacci |
64ccc24
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"Right. That's twenty-two fifty." "Twenty-two fifty?" We can't hide our exasperation. "Well, yeah - this is a classy joint, you know." "That's obvious - the service is incredible."
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sarcasm
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Markus Zusak |
2f71529
|
worms have crawled up your nose and eaten your wits.
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|
stupidity
morbid-humor
sarcasm
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George R.R. Martin |
c0a082e
|
Where are Haldad my father, and Haldad my brother? If the king of Doriath fears a friendship between Haleth and those who have devoured her kin, then the ways of the Eldar are strange to Men.
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sarcasm
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J.R.R. Tolkien |
7b5a232
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"A demigod?" I repeated like I'd just learned to speak a few seconds ago. "A real, live demigod?" "Opposed to a fake, dead one?" He chuckled, proud of himself, and then sighed when my eyes narrowed on him. "You used to have a sense of humor, Seth."
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humor
sarcasm
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Jennifer L. Armentrout |
8b37942
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Why do you haunt me? You, like a tattoo on my tongue, like the bay leaf at the bottom of every pan. You who sprawled out beside me and sang my horoscope to a Schubert symphony, something about travel and money again, and we lay there, both of our breaths bad, both of our underwear dangling elastic, and then you turned toward me with a gaze like two matches, putting the horoscope aside, you traced my buried ribs with your index finger, lingered at my collarbone, admiring it as one might a flying buttress, murmuring: Nice clavicle. And me, too new at it and scared, not knowing what to say, whispering: You should see my ten-speed.
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love
inspirational
sarcasm
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Lorrie Moore |
951d41a
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And her dumplings were so light they would float in the air and you'd have to catch 'em to eat 'em.
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jest
sipsey
soul-food
sarcasm
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Fannie Flagg |
daee1cd
|
I nee to reason for a plague, ... As far as I know no comets or eclipses have been forecast, and our sins are not great enough for God to be concerned with us.
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punishment
sarcasm
|
Gabriel García Márquez |
810c6ce
|
"In the meantime, I'll get a job. I'll pay my own way." "A job?" "Mmm, yeah. It's that thing people do to make money."
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|
money
rick-people
olivia
mother
sarcasm
|
Kelley Armstrong |
3ff5c84
|
"Do you expect to learn anything at Shiz?" he asked. "I have already learned not to speak to strangers." "Then I will introduce myself and we will be strangers no longer. I am Dillamond." "I am disinclined to know you."
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sarcasm
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Gregory Maguire |
846e732
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. . . they would rather sneer at us and be smug, because we 'fail' to see what they are driving at. If indeed they are driving at anything--obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.
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sarcasm
|
Robert A. Heinlein |
c8f99fc
|
"Is that where you took care of him? In a restroom?" "No. I walked him out to the runway and threw him in front of a Boeing."
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sarcasm
|
Max Allan Collins |
15f7f95
|
Just a minute, Miss Frazetti, I'm getting dressed.' 'Hurry it up, Mo,' snapped Carla, her voice crackly through the cheap speakers. 'I'm getting old here.
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|
funny
sarcasm
|
Eoin Colfer |
4c33efa
|
"Gankis lifted an arm to point at the distant shale cliffs. "And in the face of it there were thousands of little holes, little what-you-call-'ems..." "Alcoves," Kennit supplied in an almost dreamy voice. "I call them alcoves, Gankis. As would you, if you could speak your own mother tongue."
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|
funny
answer
arm
blank
captain
cliff
query
response
title
tongue
witty
word
language
point
mother
sarcastic
question
voice
wit
name
sarcasm
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Robin Hobb |
b612460
|
He explained civilization to me. I mean how it looks to him. He's going to let it go on a little while longer. But it better be careful and not interfere with his private life. If it does, he's apt to make a phone call to God and cancel the order.
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|
sarcasm
|
Raymond Chandler |
44bd74b
|
Why is a man with a knife after your blood? Who sent him? I would like to write the fellow a letter of thanks!
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humor
sarcasm
|
Elizabeth Peters |
d2d7dfa
|
"Then the small man suddenly ran after them and said: "I want to get my haircut. I say, do you know a little shop anywhere where they cut hair properly? I keep on having my hair cut, but it keeps on growing again." One of the tall men looked at him with the air of a pained naturalist."
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|
wit
sarcasm
|
G.K. Chesterton |
1abe1a2
|
"Why, you mean you didn't get abducted and dragged across country purely to make us a story for us to chew over endlessly?" asked Pip, tossing his shock of tow-colored hair indignantly. "The nerve!"
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humor
sarcasm
|
Mercedes Lackey |
27a4d59
|
"Weapons master is giving me special lessons." she (Amily) chuckled. " He calls then How Not To Get Killed lessons."
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sarcasm
|
Mercedes Lackey |
27983d8
|
"He has got no good red blood in his body," said Sir James. "No. Somebody put a drop under a magnifying glass, and it was all semicolons and parentheses," said Mrs. Cadwallader."
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humor
wit
sarcasm
|
George Eliot |
851309b
|
Entertaining females with accounts of jug-bitten maunderings is one of my favourite pastimes.
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sarcasm
|
Georgette Heyer |