Irony Quotes - Page 10

• ...his job was the very least important part of his life, never to be mentioned except in irony.

  Richard Yates

  Jobs, Important

  Richard Yates (2010). “Revolutionary Road”, p.65, Random House

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• While a particularly deft sense of irony may be one of the tools of great storytellers, I think it's also true that if irony serves as a retreat from an emotional engagement that you're overly concerned is uncool, that's a failure of nerve.

  Steve Erickson

  Emotional, Thinking, Nerves

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• I am a connoisseur of fine irony. 'Tis a bit like fine wine, but it has a better bite.

  Lynn Kurland

  Wine, Fine, Connoisseur

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• A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Hurt, Teens, Mouths

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “Faithless: Tales of Transgression”, p.33, Harper Collins

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• Everything becomes symbol and irony when you've been betrayed

  Jay McInerney

  Betrayed, Symbols

  Jay McInerney (2014). “Bright Lights, Big City”, p.54, A&C Black

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• I feel as if one would only discover on one's death-bed what one ought to have lived for, and realise too late that one's life has been wasted. Any passionate and courageous life seems good in itself, yet one feels that some element of delusion is involved in giving so much passion to any humanly attainable object. And so irony creeps into the very springs of one's being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Spring, Passion, Giving

  Bertrand Russell (2014). “The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell”, p.232, Routledge

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• Y no nos equivoquemos: la ironía nos tiraniza. La razón por la que nuestra omnipresente ironía cultural es a la vez tan poderosa y tan insatisfactoria es que es imposible identificar a un ironista. Toda la ironía estadounidense se basa en un implícito "no quiero decir realmente lo que estoy diciendo". Entonces, ¿qué quiere decir la ironía como norma cultural? ¿Que es imposible querer decir lo que se dice? ¿Que quizá sea una pena que sea imposible, pero que hay que despertarse y oler el café de una vez? Lo más probable, creo, es que la ironía de hoy acabe diciendo: "Qué banal por tu parte preguntar qué quiero decir realmente.

  David Foster Wallace

  Powerful, Mistake, Coffee

  David Foster Wallace (2012). “A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again”, p.55, Hachette UK

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• La gran ironía es que las personas que viven en zonas remotas, que son analfabetas y no tienen televisor, son en cierto modo más libres porque están fuera del alcance del adoctrinamiento de los modernos medios de comunicación de masas.

  Arundhati Roy

  Medios, Gente, Camino

  Fuente: www.truth-out.org

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• Painting allows me to use other portions of my brain pleasurably. Irony plays no part in what or how I paint. I paint the particular subject matter not to make polemical points but because I am interested in the human imprint on the landscape. I paint the landscape of my time and place with the stuff in it.

  James Howard Kunstler

  Play, Brain, Use

  Entrevista con Simmons B. Buntin, www.terrain.org.

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• Mataría por un Premio Nobel de la Paz.

  Steven Wright

  Divertido, Vida, Paz

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• He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

  Don DeLillo

  Pain, Self, World

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

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• The irony of acquiring a foreign tongue is that I have amassed just enough cheap, serviceable words to fuel my desires and never, never enough lavish, impudent ones to feed them.

  Monique Truong

  Desire, Fuel, Tongue

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• Love: the sickest of Irony’s sick jokes. The place where logic and order go to die.

  Christopher Moore

  Order, Sick, Logic

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Coyote Blue: A Novel”, p.158, Simon and Schuster

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• I'm the type of spiritual person that doesn't speak openly about their spirituality. Irony is probably my religion.

  Jonathan Raymond

  Spiritual, Speak, Type

  "La epopeya californiana de Jon Raymond". Entrevista con Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. 1 de febrero de 2017.

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• Let's escape the past. The past didn't work. All we have is the future, and I'm the one who wrote "no future for you!" Don't let the irony be lost.

  John Lydon

  Past, Lost

  Fuente: www.axs.com

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• I got into music by happenchance and luck and wearing a t-shirt with "I hate Pink Floyd" on it. The irony has never failed to amuse me ever since because I didn't hate Pink Floyd at all! And yet you have an entire range of people out there believing that the best thing you can do in life is to hate Pink Floyd. Come on, It's because it's the world I live in!

  John Lydon

  Hate, Believe, People

  Fuente: www.axs.com

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• Isn't it odd I've made some friends in the Republican Party, but that's in spite of the fact that I cannot agree with not any one single thing they stand for. That's the irony in the joy of being a human being in that we don't resent each other for our different thought processes, but anything that offers the attitude to me of "I'm going to stop you because that offends my religion", then I'm going to stop them. So I have one more note against that ideology, and the idea of a real estate agent running the universe is just not acceptable.

  John Lydon

  Running, Attitude, Real

  Fuente: www.axs.com

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• Obviamente, el sentimentalismo barato no es algo con lo que ningún buen novelista quiera traficar, pero creo que es un problema si lo consideras el más atroz de todos los pecados creativos. Creo que es un problema si se considera que es lo que hay que evitar a toda costa. Creo que es un problema si no estás dispuesto a arriesgar las consecuencias de ese tipo de emocionalismo bajo ninguna circunstancia. Entonces acabas en el callejón sin salida de la ironía.

  Steve Erickson

  Pensar, Viento, Creativo

  Fuente: therumpus.net

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• Irony is Fate's most common figure of speech.

  Trevanian

  Fate, Ironic, Speech

  Trevanian (2005). “Shibumi: A Novel”, p.106, Broadway Books

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• When it was over, she gathered him in her arms. And told him the terrible irony of her life. That she had wanted to be dead all those years while her brother had been alive. That had been her sin. And this was her penance. Wanting to live when everyone else seemed dead.

  Melina Marchetta

  Brother, Years, Alive

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• Claro, nada tiene más éxito que el éxito. El hecho es, querida, que somos tontos. Nos aferramos a un ideal que nadie quiere ni le importa. Yo soy el más tonto de los dos. Sigo comiéndome el corazón y envenenando cada momento de mi vida en el intento de despertar la sensibilidad de la gente. Al menos si pudiera hacerlo con los ojos cerrados. Lo irónico es que veo la inutilidad de mis esfuerzos y, sin embargo, no puedo dejarlo.

  Emma Goldman

  Dejar Ir, Ojo, Corazón

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• ...because really, sometimes the irony gods just get drunk.

  Libba Bray

  Drunk, Sometimes

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• If post-punk enterprise suggested that pop music could establish a fierce skittishness, an aggressive self-irony, that would enable it to transcend its manufactured state, video narcissism announces that pop has found an easy way to steal more cash from young people and damage their natural desires.

  Paul Morley

  Yo, Personas, Deseo

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• There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Serious, Spirit, Mysterious

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• El cuello de ganso es un manjar. Al menos hay que probarlo. En los restaurantes de lujo la gente paga hasta cincuenta dólares el plato por esto'. Y en nuestra casa nos lo daban gratis a la fuerza. Otra ironía de la vida.

  Janette Rallison

  Gente, Casa, Intentar

  Janette Rallison (2009). "All's Fair in Love, War and High School", p. 34, Bloomsbury Publishing USA.

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