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"In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed."
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"I have forgotten all about my school days. I have a vague impression that they were detestable."
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"Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life."
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"The funny part of being funny is when you start seeing your fans writing funny words and attributing them to you."
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"One must have a heart of stone to read the death of little Nell without laughing."
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"If you see this guy drowning, do not stop him, it might be Peter trying to walk on water reaching Christ."
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"Starving whilst schooled is like a man's finding out that his wife is on her periods - a few seconds after he took Viagra."
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"If there were a master of stupidity in this world, I would really love to listen to his success story."
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"Of course boredom may lead you to anything. It is boredom sets one sticking golden pins into people, but all that would not matter. What is bad (this is my comment again) is that I dare say people will be thankful for the gold pins then."
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"Brain research tells us that only twenty percent of human beings have a sense of irony, which means that eighty percent of the world takes everything at face value."
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"Well, in the first place girls never marry the men they flirt with. Girls don't think it right."
Social
"She lives in the poetry she cannot write."
Art
"The mutilation of the savage has its tragic survival in the self-denial that mars our lives."
Life
"The costume of the nineteenth century is detestable. It is so sombre, so depressing. Sin is the only real colour-element left in modern life."
Society
"It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it."
Help
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you."
Work
"What a silly thing love is!' said the student as he walked away. 'It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything, and it is always telling one of things that are not going to happen, and making one believe things that are not true. In fact, it is quite unpractical, and, as in this age to be practical is everything, I shall go back to philosophy and study metaphysics.' So he returned to his room and pulled out a great dusty book, and began to read."
Philosophy
"I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect."
Force
"The ages live in history through their anachronisms."
Society
"The nineteenth century dislike of realism is the rage of Caliban seeing his own face in a glass. The nineteenth century dislike of romanticism is the rage of Caliban not seeing his own face in a glass."
Art
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