#irony

My book has a very simple surface, but there are layers of irony and paradox all the way through it. ↗

— Mark Haddon

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He had had much experience of physicians, and said 'the only way to keep your health is to eat what you don't want, drink what you don't like, and do what you'd druther not'. ↗

— Mark Twain

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Irony regards every simple truth as a challenge. ↗

— Mason Cooley

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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

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The irony is, going to work every day became the subject of probably my best poetry. ↗

— Philip Levine

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To me the biggest irony of this lifetime that I'm living is that for someone who thrives in the public eye in the creative ways that I do, I actually don't enjoy being in the public eye. ↗

— Alanis Morissette

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

— Charles Lamb

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The grand irony, however, is that Southern segregation was not brought to an end, nor redneck violence dramatically reduced, by violence. ↗

— Stanley Crouch

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With every mistake, we must surely be learning. ↗

— George Harrison

#irony #mistakes

Ialways think it's funny when Indians celebrate Thanksgiving. I mean, sure, the Indians and Pilgrims were best friends during the first Thanksgiving, but a few years later, the Pilgrims were shooting Indians. So I'm never quite sure why we eat Turkey like everybody else. (101) ↗

— Sherman Alexie

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