#irony

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

— Anatole Broyard

#history #irony #tourists #wars #win

There is not much irony when people are being happy on screen. ↗

— Carter Burwell

#being happy #happy #irony #much #people

That's the beautiful thing about innocence; even monsters have a pocketful of childhood memories with which to seek comfort with. ↗

— Dave Matthes

#book #childhood #comfort #death #drums

That's the irony in the work: the best stories are the worst things that happen. My best times were somebody else's worst. ↗

— Michael Connelly

#else #happen #irony #somebody #stories

Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. ↗

— Mason Cooley

#every #irony #regards #simple #simple truth

Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value. ↗

— Doug Coupland

#brain #eighty #everything #face #face value

So I told the lady Biology and high school were useless crap, I was going to get a job, and I was never coming back to school. And I didn’t. Yeah, I sure showed them. ↗

— Diana Rowland

#death

The irony of our social group is that so often everyone feels this, but there's no company whatsoever in that feeling. Think of Pound's great emphasis, the way out is via the door. ↗

— Robert Creeley

#door #emphasis #everyone #feeling #feels

I’m pre-med,” he added smugly. “Okay.” I said again. I didn’t shrug this time, but his jaw tightened a bit as if he was annoyed that I wasn’t displaying the proper amazement at his accomplishment. “And I’m next in line to be promoted to death investigator.” The look he gave me was nothing short of a challenge, and I had to fight to not roll my eyes. What, he expected me to start crowing about my own accomplishments so he could top them? He’d be waiting a long time for that. ↗

— Diana Rowland

#death

The over-weight and out of shape guy who owned the house had apparently decided that having a half-million dollar house meant that he couldn’t afford to hire someone to clean out his gutters. Now he was dead with what looked to me like a broken neck after the ladder had slipped. He’d taken the plunge into his fancy landscaping—complete with rock garden. But hey, his fucking gutters were clean. ↗

— Diana Rowland

#dying #garden #humor #irony #sarcasm