I must be overtired', Buttercup managed. 'The excitement and all.'
'Rest then', her mother cautioned. 'Terrible things can happen when you're overtired. I was overtired the night your father proposed.
Tags: tiredness irony repartee tired the-princess-bride buttercup william-goldman
The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.
Andrew McEwanTags: humour satire laziness irony fast-food buckets misapprehension
And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?
Naomi NovikI am waiting for the war to be fought
which will make the world safe for anarchy
The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change.
----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986
Tags: philosophical irony introduction american intro a-clockwork-orange-resucked
Indeed it may be said with some confidence that the average man never really thinks from end to end of his life. There are moments when his cogitations are relatively more respectable than usual, but even at their climaxes they never reach anything properly describable as the level of serious thought. The mental activity of such people is only a mouthing of clichés. What they mistake for thought is simply a repetition of what they have heard. My guess is that well over eighty per cent. of the human race goes through life without having a single original thought. That is to say, they never think anything that has not been thought before and by thousands.
H.L. MenckenTags: thought irony clichés freethought human-race
Imagine the wizened quality of a life blanched of contradiction and double standard.
p 44
Tags: irony
I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.
Tobias WolffTags: humor death epitaph irony
As learnèd commentators view
In Homer more than Homer knew.
Tags: irony
Why should I struggle through hundreds of pages of fabrication to reach half a dozen very little truths?'
'For fun?'
'Fun!' He pounced on the word. 'Words are for truth. For facts. Not fiction.
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