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    Ralph Waldo Emerson
    “The end of the human race will be that it will eventually die of civilization.”
    ― Ralph Waldo Emerson
    tags: satire
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    Neal Shusterman
    “I'd rather be partly great than entirely useless.”
    ― Neal Shusterman, Unwind
    tags: ambition, failure, irony, optimism
    863 likes

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    Alexander McCall Smith
    “It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.”
    ― Alexander McCall Smith, Morality for Beautiful Girls
    tags: happiness, irony, knowledge
    592 likes

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    Fyodor Dostoevsky
    “I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.”
    ― Fyodor Dostoevsky, Notes from Underground
    tags: hell, individualism, irony, selfishness, tea
    3748 likes

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    Harlan Ellison
    “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; but if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
    ― Harlan Ellison
    551 likes

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    Steven Wright
    “I'd kill for a Nobel Peace Prize.”
    ― Steven Wright
    tags: humor, irony, nobel-peace-prize
    225 likes

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    Charles Bukowski
    “What is your advice to young writers?”
    “Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.”
    ― Charles Bukowski, Hot Water Music
    tags: advice, alcohol, authors, bukowski, cigarettes, drink, funny, humor, ironic, irony, sarcasm, sex, smoke, writers, writing, writing-process
    324 likes

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    Moses Hadas
    “Thank you for sending me a copy of your book. I'll waste no time reading it.”
    ― Moses Hadas
    tags: bad-reviews, books, classic-insult, irony, literary-criticism, time
    241 likes

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    Manny Rayner
    “There's nothing wrong with giving up all your principles for a suitable financial reward. It is indeed the basis of our society.”
    ― Manny Rayner
    tags: irony, sociology
    157 likes

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    Simon R. Green
    “It's hard to maintain a reputation for being grim and mysterious when you're accompanied by a brightly clad young thing, skipping merrily along at your side, holding your hand, and smiling sweetly on one and all.”
    ― Simon R. Green, The Unnatural Inquirer
    tags: humour, irony
    40 likes

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    Jane Austen
    “That will do extremely well, child. You have delighted us long enough. Let the other young ladies have time to exhibit.”
    ― Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice
    tags: cloth-ears, irony, modesty, musicality, showing-off
    128 likes

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    Andrew McEwan
    “The worst mistake a writer can make is to assume everyone has an imagination.”
    ― Andrew McEwan
    tags: buckets, fast-food, humour, irony, laziness, misapprehension, satire
    37 likes

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    Fran Lebowitz
    “Food is an important part of a balanced diet.”
    ― Fran Lebowitz
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    Don Marquis
    “If you make people think they're thinking, they'll love you; But if you really make them think, they'll hate you.”
    ― Don Marquis
    131 likes

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    William Shakespeare
    “The prince of darkness is a gentleman!”
    ― William Shakespeare, King Lear
    tags: insanity, irony
    262 likes

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    Terry Pratchett
    “You know, you're rather amusingly wrong.”
    ― Terry Pratchett, Maskerade
    tags: comeback, funny, humor, humorous, irony, satire, wit, witty-quotes
    113 likes

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    John Fowles
    “He was one of the most supremely stupid men I have ever met. He taught me a great deal.”
    ― John Fowles, The Magus
    74 likes

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    Anne Frank
    “Who else but me is ever going to read these letters?”
    ― Anne Frank, The Diary of a Young Girl
    tags: diary, innocence, irony
    76 likes

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    Criss Jami
    “I would rather be an artist than a leader. Ironically, a leader has to follow the rules.”
    ― Criss Jami, Venus in Arms
    tags: artists, conformity, creativity, example, following, irony, leader, rules
    117 likes

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    “I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm 45.”
    ― Mick Jagger
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  • #21
    “The cinema is an invention without any future.”
    ― Louis Lumière
    tags: cinema, irony
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    Jacqueline Kelly
    “I had never seen a real live dead person.”
    ― jacqueline kelly
    tags: curiosity, curious, innocence, irony
    7 likes

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    Barack Obama
    “But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.”
    ― Barack Obama, Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance
    44 likes

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    Mark Twain
    “Many a small thing has been made large by the right kind of advertising.”
    ― Mark Twain
    tags: advertising, humorous, irony, sexual-innuendos
    15 likes

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    Ljupka Cvetanova
    “If time is money and you wasted my time, then give me back my money!”
    ― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
    tags: give-back, irony, money, owe, owe-money, quote, quotes, sarcasm, time, witty
    9 likes

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    Rebecca Makkai
    “The whole damn century would've made more sense backwards. Where we ended is worse than where we began.”
    ― Rebecca Makkai, The Hundred-Year House
    tags: humor, irony, life
    6 likes

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    Tobias Wolff
    “I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.”
    ― Tobias Wolff, The Night in Question
    tags: death, epitaph, humor, irony
    11 likes

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  • #28
    “Your history flows from your hands write good chapters with them"

    RjS”
    ― rassool jibraeel snyman
    tags: fated, history, irony, philosophy, truth
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    Ljupka Cvetanova
    “Beauty is in the eye of the jury.”
    ― Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
    tags: aphorism, artificial-beauty, beauty, beauty-contest, funny, irony, measure-beuty, sarcasm
    2 likes

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    Holly Goldberg Sloan
    “It was ironic that the kids who didn't go to school would be punished with the threat of being kicked out.”
    ― Holly Goldberg Sloan, Counting by 7s
    tags: ironic, irony, truancy
    8 likes



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