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• Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.

  E. O. Wilson

  Blessed, Enemy, Energy

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• Art and irony would disintegrate the personality, kitsch makes it whole.

  Mike Curran

  Art, Personality, Kitsch

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• Irony can elude the genius among us, sometimes.

  Berkeley Breathed

  Genius, Elude, Sometimes

  "Bill is Back (Thank You Berkeley Breathed)". Interview With Seira Wilson, www.amazonbookreview.com. October 21, 2016.

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• Irony is based on insecurity; people like to not like things because they don't understand them.

  Justin Vernon

  People, Insecurity

  Source: pitchfork.com

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• Humor brings insight and tolerance.

  Agnes Repplier

  Tolerance, Ironic, Events

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• I have wit in my work and a sense of humor, but I do not use irony in any way

  John Zorn

  Humor, Way, Use

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• The irony is that while God doesn’t need us but still wants us, we desperately need God but don’t really want Him most of the time.

  Francis Chan

  God, Jesus, Thought Provoking

  Francis Chan, Preston Sprinkle (2014). “The Francis Chan Collection: Crazy Love, Forgotten God, Erasing Hell, and Multiply”, p.42, David C Cook

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• A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Success, Independence, Credit

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• Jesus wept; Voltaire smiled. From that divine tear and from that human smile is derived the grace of present civilization.

  Victor Hugo

  Smile, Jesus, Civilization

  "Centenaire de Voltaire" (1878)

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• Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

  Charles Lamb

  Blessed, Veins, Clapping

  Charles Lamb (1838). “Essays of Elia. Rosamund Gray. Recollections of Chirst's hospital. Essays on the tragedies of Shakspeare [etc.] Letters under assumed signatures published in the Reflector. Curious fragments. Mr. H”, p.75

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• The dogs in our lives, the dogs we come to love and who (we fervently believe) love us in return, offer more than fidelity, consolation, and companionship. They offer comedy, irony, wit, and a wealth of anecdotes, the "shaggy dog stories" and "stupid pet tricks" that are commonplace pleasures of life.

  Marjorie Garber

  Dog, Stupid, Believe

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• One of the great ironies of the social media era is that some of the least social people in the world created it.

  Sarah Lacy

  Media, People, World

  "The Irony of the Social Media Era: It Was Created By the World’s Least Social People" by Sarah Lacy, www.huffingtonpost.com. May 15, 2012.

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• Irony is always the best weapon against fascism.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Weapons, Fascism

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• It is one of history's greatest ironies that, over the centuries, the pursuit of pleasure has resulted in more pain than enjoyment.

  Mardy Grothe

  Pain, Pleasure, Century

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• Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

  Moss Hart

  Self, Logic, Pity

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• One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

  Lewis Mumford

  Ironic, Intelligence, Danger

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• Crying wolf may have been the boy's undoing, but the true irony was that the wolves were always lurking nearby.

  Wes Fesler

  Boys, May, Cry

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• Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Moments, Cynicism, Controlled

  Rainer Maria Rilke (2001). “Letters to a Young Poet”

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• Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

  Italo Calvino

  Police, States, These Days

  Italo Calvino (2012). “If on a winter's night a traveler”, p.247, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Changing things is not easy, and I say this without any irony. It is not that someone does not want to, but because it is a hard thing to do. Take Obama, a forward-thinking man, a liberal, a democrat. Did he not pledge to shut down Guantanamo before his election? But did he do it? No, he did not. And may I ask why not? Did he not want to do it? He wanted to, I am sure he did, but it did not work out. He sincerely wanted to do it, but did not succeed, since it turned out to be very complicated.

  Vladimir Putin

  Men, Work Out, Succeed

  Source: en.kremlin.ru

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• The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with Democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and, as a consequence, people are covered there. It hasn't destroyed jobs. And as a consequence, we now have a system in which we have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold." "Gov. Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

  "The First presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, in Denver". www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• The great irony is that women are accused of making romantic comedies, as if it’s a bad thing, but Marc Webb makes a romantic comedy and he gets ‘Spider-Man.’ Are you kidding me? You cannot win.

  Manohla Dargis

  Summer, Winning, Men

  "Women Directors Nearly Absent in 2013 Awards Season" by Robert Abele, variety.com. December 11, 2013.

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• (On The International Criminal Court) "For the victors of the Cold War to submit to an unelected, unaccountable, and almost certainly hostile body such as that envisaged would be the ultimate irony."

  Margaret Thatcher

  War, Would Be, Body

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• When readers don't like the book, it's usually because they feel that romantic love is pass or somehow needs more irony.

  Charles Baxter

  Book, Romantic Love, Love Is

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• I think there is irony in the fact that the computer is both their chief venue of communication and propaganda and also the mother of all their fears.

  Mark Potok

  Mother, Communication, Technology

  "Y2K fever to heat up in '99" by Nancy Weil, www.cnn.com. December 28, 1998.

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