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Letter "I" » ironies
«Humor brings insight and tolerance. Irony brings a deeper and less friendly understanding.»
«Irony is an insult conveyed in the form of a compliment»
«My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son-of-a-bitch»
«Our universities are so determined to impose tolerance that they'll expel you for saying what you think and never notice the irony»
«It is one of the ironies of the ministry that the very man who works in God's name is often hardest put to find time for God. The parents of Jesus lost Him at church, and they were not the last ones to lose Him there.»
«It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.»
«Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do»
«Jews and homosexuals are the outstanding creative minorities in contemporary urban culture. Creative, that is, in the truest sense: they are creators of sensibilities. The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.»
Author: Susan Sontag
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Activist,
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«Perfection is a trifle dull. It is not the least of life's ironies that this, which we all aim at, is better not quite achieved.»
«If a nation values anything more than freedom, it will lose its freedom; and the irony of it is that if it is comfort or money that it values more, it will lose that too»