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"The accident was a horrible thing - but that horrible thing made Chris, at the end of his life, Superman. It's a happy irony if there is such a thing. I'm proud to have known him."
"Cruel irony, the poor man tormented with hunger feeds those who plead his case."
"A $20 haircut hardly ever lasts longer than a $5 haircut."
"Irony: Don't let yourself be controlled by it, especially during uncreative moments."
"Van Gogh was so under appreciated in his time, he sold only one of his 900 paintings while alive. Posthumously, he became one of the most famous artists of all time and his work is now considered priceless. Oh the irony."
"Irony deals with opposites; it has nothing to do with coincidence."
"It's an irony of our times that men seeking peace must make war."
"One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence."
"Objection, evasion, joyous distrust, and love of irony are signs of health; everything absolute belongs to pathology."
"Irony - The modern mode: either the devil’s mark or the snorkel of sanity."
"The irony is I stopped going to church a few weeks later."
"[But] we accept irony through a device called metaphor. And through that we grow and become deeper human beings."
"You yourself are participating in the evil, or you are not alive. Whatever you do is evil for somebody. This is one of the ironies of the whole creation."
"Irony is the birth-pangs of the objective mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between existence and the idea of existence). Humor is the birth -pangs of the absolute mind (based upon the misrelationship, discovered by the I , between the I and the idea of the I ."
"Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do."
"Within that moment was trust, compassion, and our mutual sense of irony. He was carrying death within him and I was carrying life. We were both aware of that, I know."
"The reason ... our pervasive cultural irony is at once so powerful and so unsatisfying is that an ironist is impossible to pin down."
"You should never try irony or self-effacing humour."
"This condition [irony] has nothing to do with writer's block, a psychological syndrome, which is one of the few I have not diagnosed for myself!"
"When or if we "quote, unquote" do not like our work, it is probably because we do not feel safe where we go to work. So when you say, what can we do?, the irony is that the best thing we can do is, well one option, is to quit."
