#irony

What cannot be said above all must not be silenced but written. ↗

— Jacques Derrida

#irony #language #speech #truth #writing

Our world will not die as the result of the bomb, as the papers say, it will die of laughter, of banality, or making a joke of everything, and a lousy joke at that. ↗

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

#laughter

Do you see the irony at all, Tristan?’ I stare at him and shake my head. He seems determined not to speak again until I do. ‘What irony?’ I ask eventually, the words tumbling out in a hurried heap. ‘That I am to be shot as a coward while you get to live as one. ↗

— John Boyne

#irony #war #cowardice

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

— Karl Kraus

#dog #graves #irony #moon #sentimental

Certainly, it seems true enough that there's a good deal of irony in the world... I mean, if you live in a world full of politicians and advertising, there's obviously a lot of deception. ↗

— Kenneth Koch

#certainly #deal #deception #enough #full

Skype is a wonderful thing. The irony is that you never Skype when you're in the same country as someone. ↗

— Richard Fleeshman

#irony #never #same #skype #someone

I love Sell Out, I think it's great. I love the jingles. The whole thing as an album is a wonderful piece of work. The cover. Everything about it. It's got humor, great songs, irony. ↗

— Roger Daltrey

#album #cover #everything #got #great