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• Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Ironic, Rejuvenation, Finitude

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• We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.

  Anatole Broyard

  War, Winning, Tourism

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• I love the irony. I'm perceived as being really young and yet I have the clinical condition of an old man.

  Michael J. Fox

  Men, Young, Old Man

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• Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

  Rufus Choate

  Sarcasm, Argument

  "Dictionary of American Maxims". Book by David George Plotkin, 1955.

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• Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.

  Barbara Kruger

  Artist, Culture, Knows

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• We should try to understand our innermost needs. We shouldn't use irony to reduce their power.

  Manuel Puig

  Trying, Needs, Use

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• A careful observation of Nature will disclose pleasantries of superb irony. She has for instance placed toads close to flowers.

  Honore de Balzac

  Nature, Flower, Toads

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• Irony is just honesty with the volume cranked up.

  George Saunders

  Honesty, Honest, Volume

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• The great thing about irony is that it splits things apart, gets up above them so we can see the flaws and hypocrisies and duplicates.

  David Foster Wallace

  Hypocrisy, Splits, Flaws

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• I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.

  Neal Shusterman

  Inspiring, Failure, Ambition

  Neal Shusterman (2014). “UnSouled”, p.91, Simon and Schuster

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• Irony dissolves sentiment, but occasionally a sentiment is strong enough to dissolve irony.

  Mason Cooley

  Strong, Enough, Sentiments

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• The only normal people are the ones you don't know very well.

  Alfred Adler

  Drinking, Humor, Knowing

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• Quotation is a serviceable substitute for wit.

  Oscar Wilde

  Inspirational, Substitutes, Wit

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• Far too many people are looking for the right person, instead of trying to be the right person.

  Gloria Steinem

  Inspirational, Motivational, Relationship

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• When I was young, I would sit in the bath and ideas would come to me. But I'm not young any more, so now I just sit in the bath.

  Aki Kaurismaki

  Ideas, Getting Older, Baths

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

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  If you trust in yourself. . .and believe in your dreams. . .and follow your star. . . you'll still get beaten by people who spent their time working hard and learning things and weren't so lazy.

  Terry Pratchett

  Funny, Motivational, Trust

  FaceBook post by Terry Pratchett from Aug 28, 2015

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• There is only one heaven, one earth and one queen (me) Queen Elizabeth is an impostor.

  Dinah Washington

  Queens, Oneness, Heaven

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• I have never regretted my silence. As for my speech, I have regretted it over and over again.

  Umar

  Regret, Silence, Words Of Wisdom

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• Advice is what we ask for when we already know the answer but wish we didn't.

  Erica Jong

  Funny, Being Strong, Spiritual

  FaceBook post by Erica Jong from Oct 02, 2015

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• Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves.

  Karl Kraus

  Dog, Moon, Ironic

  Karl Kraus (1976). “Half-truths & One-and-a-half Truths: Selected Aphorisms”

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• I have seen slower people than I am and more deliberate... and even quieter, and more listless, and lazier people than I am. But they were dead.

  Mark Twain

  Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.442, Courier Corporation

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• It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.

  Alexander McCall Smith

  Happiness, Ironic, Sometimes

  Alexander McCall Smith (2002). “Morality for Beautiful Girls”, Anchor

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• It's a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon "launder" became a dirty word.

  William Zinsser

  Sarcastic, Dirty, Sarcasm

  "On Writing Well". Book by William Zinsser (Chapter 7: Usage, p. 47), 1976.

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• Everything we say about other people is really about ourselves.

  Merrit Malloy

  People, Gossip, Projection

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• Food is an important part of a balanced diet.

  Fran Lebowitz

  Funny, Life, Witty

  FaceBook post by Fran Lebowitz from Apr 13, 2010

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