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Letter "I" » irony
«There's one irony it has no pictures.»
«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 a fitting irony that under Richard Nixon, 'launder' became a dirty word»
«Sentimental irony is a dog that bays at the moon while pissing on graves»
«The keynote of American civilization is a sort of warm-hearted vulgarity. The Americans have none of the irony of the English, none of their cool poise, none of their manner. But they do have friendliness. Where an Englishman would give you his card, an American would very likely give you his shirt.»
«Irony is the gaiety of reflection and the joy of wisdom»
«Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.»
«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,
Critic,
Writer)
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«It may be that we shall by a process of sublime irony have reached a stage in this story where safety will be the sturdy child of terror, and survival the twin brother of annihilation.»