#irony

She had hit rock-bottom. She had given a blow job to a man who for all intents and purposes, was a bum. He had smelled so bad, she forced him to spray on some of the perfume she always carried in her purse. Her favorite perfume. After tonight, she was quitting. Yeah, she’d have to go back home with her two kids, grovel to her mama and work a dead-end job, but anything was better than getting down on your knees to give a guy as disgusting as Lenny a one-off. ↗

— A.T. Hicks

#humor #irony #prostitute #strip-club #home

I'm being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it's not polite. There! ↗

— Ray Bradbury

#irony #humor

What is all this? Get him out of here, devil take me!” And that one, imagine, smiles and says: “Devil take you? That, in fact, can be done!” And—bang! ↗

— Mikhail Bulgakov

#devil #irony #imagination

He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping. ↗

— Tad Williams

#irony #imagination

You can put anything into words, except your own life ↗

— Max Frisch

#meaning #life

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis) ↗

— Timothy Egan

#life

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrased and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all. ↗

— Kurt Vonnegut

#irony #life #life

They only asked for punishments that fitted their crimes. Not ones that came like cupboards with built-in bedrooms. Not ones you spent your whole life in, wandering through its maze of shelves. ↗

— Arundhati Roy

#irony #justice #punishment #life

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant. ↗

— Markus Zusak

#life #paradox #life

To say "He was a young fool, and now he's an old fool" is to make a distinction without a difference. ↗

— Gary Inbinder

#philosophy-of-life #life