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• Oh,” she said. “You can rest assured that I will kill him. Mostly this is to emphasize what I said before: no more time to lounge around and decide with no consequences. For every moment you waste deliberating today, the Oak King will be in the hands of my torturers, experiencing the most excruciating pain. Your delay extends that agony.” “Oh, irony,” murmured Dorian.

  Richelle Mead

  Kings, Pain, Hands

  Richelle Mead (2012). “Richelle Mead Dark Swan Bundle: Storm Born, Thorn Queen, Iron Crowned & Shadow Heir”, p.1403, Zebra Books

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• The only thing I can recommend at this stage is a sense of humor, an ability to see things in their ridiculous and absurd dimensions, to laugh at others and at ourselves, a sense of irony regarding everything that calls out for parody in this world. In other words, I can only recommend perspective and distance.

  Vaclav Havel

  Distance, Laughing, Perspective

  "War Through a Poet's Lens" by Donald P. Kommers, www.americamagazine.org. April 22, 2000.

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• I'd loved in so many bodies, but never one I loved like this. Never one that I craved in this way. Of course, this would be the one I'd have to give up. The irony made me laugh, and I concentrated on the feel of the air that popped in little bubbles from my chest and up through my throat. Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body, making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer? I couldn't remember one.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Laughter, Giving Up, Simple

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• My old school, St Stella’s, only goes to Year Ten and most of my friends now go to Pius Senior College, but my mother wouldn’t allow it because she says the girls there leave with limited options and she didn’t bring me up to have limitations placed upon me. If you know my mother, you’ll sense there’s an irony there, based on the fact that she is the Queen of the Limitation Placers in my life.

  Melina Marchetta

  Senior, Girl, Mother

  Melina Marchetta (2007). “Saving Francesca”, p.6, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• The problem with Keith Ellison's message and what you all are saying - and I - and I respect what you're saying because we have been there - is - and another irony of this campaign - is that Barack Obama always won astronomically on his own, but he has completely devastated the party. He's lost the Senate, the House, 30 governorships, over 900 legislatures.

  Mary Matalin

  Party, House, Campaigns

  Source: abcnews.go.com

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• In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Past, Night

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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• One interesting thing I found was that if you take an affluent modern society and collapse it during a crisis, like a war or a natural disaster, people begin relating in a more ancient, organic way. They're functioning in small interdependent groups and putting others first. And another irony is that even in terrible times, cooperating makes people feel good.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, People, Interesting

  Source: www.oprah.com

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• In the end, there is no absence of irony: the integrity of what is sacred to Native Americans will be determined by the government that has been responsible for doing everything in its power to destroy Native American cultures.

  Winona LaDuke

  Integrity, Native American, Government

  Winona LaDuke (2016). “Recovering the Sacred: The Power of Naming and Claiming”, p.10, Haymarket Books

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• I am always impressed by the fact that even the tiniest amount of being listened to, the barest suggestion of the possibility of kind treatment, can bring such an immediate rush of emotion. I think this is because we are almost never really listened to. In my work as a psychologist, I am reminded every day of how infrequently we are heard, any of us, or our actions even marginally understood. And one of the ironies of my "listening profession" is its lesson that, in many ways, each of us ultimately remains a mystery to everyone else.

  Martha Stout

  Thinking, Listening, Suggestions

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.141, Harmony

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• Sometimes I think that no situation actually fits the technical definition of irony, and that the word just sort of hangs out in the linguistic ether singing a Siren song that's designed to crash the unsuspecting against the jagged rocks of pedantry.

  Mike Duncan

  Song, Thinking, Rocks

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• Irony has seeped into the felt of any fedora hat I have ever owned - not out of any wish of mine, but out of necessity. A fedora hat worn by me without the necessary protective irony would eat through my head and kill me.

  George W. S. Trow

  Wish, Fedoras, Hats

  George W. S. Trow (1981). “Within the Context of No Context”, p.119, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I've always gravitated towards those ultimate lines in songs, the line you grab on to. That line in 'Smells Like Teen Spirit,' 'Here we are now/Entertain us' - the irony, the antagonism; that's always stuck with me.

  Corey Taylor

  Song, Smell, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There's a lot of situations where I feel irony involved when R&B and hip-hop is expressed in the indie worlds. There's a lot of times when I feel like the juxtaposition becomes a thing.

  Solange Knowles

  Hip Hop, World, Juxtaposition

  "Solange Knowles On Nas, Juvenile And Dance Moves". "Microphone Check" with Ali Shaheed Muhammad, Frannie Kelley, www.npr.org. February 12, 2014.

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• By an irony of fate, my first employment was as a draughtsman. I hated drawing; it was for me the very worst of annoyances. Fortunately, it was not long before I secured the position I sought, that of chief electrician to the telephone company.

  Nikola Tesla

  Fate, Drawing, Long

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In the end, we know what makes us happy. We also know what makes us unhappy. That's the irony. We know and yet we still mess it up. That's part of the human condition, no, and why we need to work on it.

  Harlan Coben

  Unhappy, Needs, Ends

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• A careful blending of sarcasm, irony, and teasing, bickering has its own distinctive cadence and rhythm and is as difficult to master as French, Spanish, or any elective second language. Like Chinese, the fine points of bickering can be discerned in the subtle rise and fall of the voice. If not practiced properly, bickering can be mistaken for its less sophisticated counterpart: whining.

  Linda Sunshine

  Fall, Sarcasm, Voice

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• That's the trouble with honorable mentions: they let everyone know you applied and didn't win.

  Nancy Mairs

  Winning, Trouble, Honorable

  Nancy Mairs (1994). “Voice Lessons: On Becoming a (woman) Writer”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• ... the irony of life is not that you cannot forget but that you can.

  Gertrude Atherton

  Life Is, Forget, Irony Of Life

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• To move from a discussion of the early relationship between theatre and television to an examination of the current situation of live performance is to confront the irony that whereas television initially sought to replicate and, implicitly, to replace live theatre, live performance itself has developed since that time toward the replication of the discourse of mediatization.

  Philip Auslander

  Moving, Live Theatre, Television

  Philip Auslander (2002). “Liveness: Performance in a Mediatized Culture”, p.23, Routledge

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• I feel like in American fiction we're moving out of a period of intense irony, and I'm very glad about that. I feel like irony is fine for its own sake but shouldn't be the sole reason to write a book. It has been an ironic world view: that's the best way I can describe it. I'm a fan of earnestness. I feel like there's a new wave of earnestness and I'd be happy if I'm some small part of that.

  Lauren Groff

  Book, Moving, Writing

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• The irony or humor of my pieces is never really calculated, but they somehow always end up that way. Humor, especially when dealing with matters of extreme gravity, has a way of toppling set ideas and opening up new modes of interpretation. Furthermore, adding humor tends to shift the power balance.

  Larissa Sansour

  Balance

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• I remember my fourth grade teacher reading 'Charlotte's Web' and 'Stuart Little' to us - both, of course, by E. B. White. His stories were genuinely funny, thought provoking and full of irony and charm. He didn't condescend to his readers, which was why I liked his books, and why I wasn't a big reader of other children's' books.

  Louis Sachar

  Teacher, Children, Book

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• There were too many lemmings - that was the core of their difficulty. None wanted solitude, but a crowd of this size was a torment. Being sensitive little beasts, they became overstimulated by superfluous numbers of their own kind. They had tried to escape, but with pitiable irony, all tried to escape together.

  Sally Carrighar

  Numbers, Solitude, Together

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• Cervantes is the most important Spanish writer. But he is not the most representative of the Spanish. His irony, his sense of humor - they are too subtle to seem Spanish.

  Antonio Munoz Molina

  Important, Sense Of Humor, Subtle

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• There is an irony that the most active anti-gay groups are Al-Qaeda and the American Right wing.

  Barney Frank

  Gay, Wings, Groups

  "Barney Frank Doesn't Care What Al-Qaeda Thinks Of His Marriage" by Andrew Kaczynski, www.buzzfeed.com. April 25, 2013.

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