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  1. Phyllis Reynolds Naylor _ Alice In-Between

    That's the unforgivable sin, you know.""What is?""Refusing to forgive someone.""Refusing to forgive someone is the unforgivable sin?" I asked incredulously.
    book-quotehumorsinirony

  2. Charles Bukowski _ You Get So Alone at Times That

    I paid, got up, walkedto the door, openedit.I heard the mansay, "that guy'snuts."out on the street Iwalked northfeelingcuriouslyhonored.
    book-quotelifesouldeath

  3. Charles Bukowski _ You Get So Alone at Times That

    sometimes when everything seems at its worst when all conspires and gnaws and the hours, days, weeks years seem wasted – stretched there upon my bed in the dark looking upward at the ceiling i get what many will consider an obnoxious thought: it's still nice to be Bukowski.
    book-quotefunnyegoirony

  4. Charles Bukowski _ You Get So Alone at Times That

    girlsplease give yourbodies and yourlivestothe young menwhodeserve thembesidesthere isno wayI would welcometheintolerabledullsenseless hellyou would bringmeandI wish youluckin bedandoutbut notinminethankyou.
    book-quotelovelifedeath

  5. Charles Bukowski _ Hot Water Music

    What is your advice to young writers?" "Drink, fuck and smoke plenty of cigarettes.
    book-quotewritinghumorsarcasm

  6. James S.A. Corey _ Leviathan Wakes

    Either help or give up. Right now devil's advocate is just another name for asshole.
    book-quotetruthironypracticality

  7. Stephen R. Donaldson _ The Mirror of Her Dreams

    The speed felt tremendous. And the bottom of the ravine was treacherous. She ought to control her mount somehow - slow it; steer it to safer footing. Of course. And while she was at it, she ought to defeat the Alend Monarch's army, take care of Master Gilbur and the arch-Imager Vagel, and produce peace on earth. While composing great music with her free hand. Instead of doing all that, however, she concentrated with a pure white intensity that resembled terror on simply staying in the saddle
    book-quotesarcasmrealityirony

  8. William Goldman _ The Princess Bride

    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.
    book-quoteironytiredthe-princess-bride

  9. Adrian McKinty _ Police at the Station and They

    If you really have to get shot, Belfast is one of the best places to do it. After twenty years of the Troubles, and after thousands of assassination attempts and punishment shootings, Belfast has trained many of the best gunshot-trauma surgeons in the world.
    book-quoteironyireland

  10. Harold Bloom _ How to Read and Why

    Since ideology, particularly in it's shallower versions, is peculiarly destructive of the capacity to apprehend and appreciate irony, I suggest that the recovery of the ironic might be our fifth principle for the restoration of reading. ... But with this principle, I am close to despair, since you can no more teach someone to be ironic than you can instruct them to become solitary. And yet the loss of irony is the death of reading, and of what had been civilized in our natures.
    book-quoteironyideology

  11. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    Humor is hard to catch in a second language. Especially when you're as serious a young man as Giovanni. He said to me the other night, 'When you are ironic, I am always behind you. I am slower. It is like you are the lightning and I am the thunder.
    book-quoteironylanguage

  12. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    So this was the Ashram's final joke on me? Once I had learned to accept my loud, chatty, social nature and fully embrace my inner Key Hostess - only then could I become The Quiet Girl in the Back of the Temple, after all?
    book-quotelifeirony
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