Assumptions are unopened windows that foolish birds fly into, and their broken bodies are evidence gathered too late.

Bryan Davis

Mots clés funny assumptions irony comical harsh blunt



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My mind went back to that picture in the obstetrics book. A cow standing in the middle of a gleaming floor while a sleek veterinary surgeon in a spotless parturition overall inserted his arm to a polite distance. He was relaxed and smiling, the farmer and his helpers were smiling, even the cow was smiling. There was no dirt or blood or sweat anywhere.
That man in the picture had just finished an excellent lunch and had moved next door to do a bit of calving just for the sheer pleasure of it, as a kind of dessert. He hadn't crawled shivering from his bed at two o'clock in the morning and bumped over twelve miles of frozen snow, staring sleepily ahead till the lonely farm showed in the headlights. He hadn't climbed half a mile of white fell-side to the doorless barn where his patient lay.

James Herriot

Mots clés irony veterinarians



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The pages of history are red with the blood of illuminated "saints" who were murdered by their religions for actually achieving the advertised spiritual rewards.

Christopher S. Hyatt

Mots clés saints irony attainment martyrs 1991



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He smelled the smells of commerce and listened to the cursing of the sailors, both of which he admired: the former, as it reeked of wealth, and the latter because it combined his two other chief preoccupations, these being theology and anatomy.

Roger Zelazny

Mots clés swearing irony 1967 cursing swear-words



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My mouth was dry. Whispers carried on the wind as the maids around me bunched together in small groups, hysterical, morbid. I thought: who will clean the mess?

A. Mussbacher

Mots clés humorous irony



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I live in my mind, such that whatever destroys me shall be a creature of my own invention.

Genevieve Ross

Mots clés humor irony self-delusion value-of-self-delusion



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I BELIEVE EVERYONE IS SPECIAL . . .

BUT SOME PEOPLE THINK . .
. . IT'S JUST ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING NO-ONE IS

Ashish Ranjan

Mots clés inspirational happiness choice belief humour goal sarcasm irony limit focus



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I scrupulously hide every legitimate reason for people to hate me, and it turns out they don’t need legitimate reasons. Heaven has fashioned a knife of irony to stab me with.

Rachel Hartman

Mots clés irony insecurity



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That Jim Crow there in the window," answered the urchin, holding out a cent, and pointing to the gingerbread figure that had attracted his notice, as he loitered along to school; "the one that has not a broken foot.

Nathaniel Hawthorne

Mots clés humor irony gingerbread jim-crow



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He led them around the base of a great fallen tree whose exposed roots resembled more than anything else a huge broom - a broom that would have fired the imagination of Rachel the Dragon toward heroic, legendary feats of sweeping.

Tad Williams

Mots clés humour irony



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