#irony

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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


#irony #imagination

Sometimes, the embers are better then the campfire. It's strange, but it's true.


Stephen King


#irony #life #life

I am beginning to believe that nothing is quite so uncertain as facts. (Edward Curtis)


Timothy Egan


#life

I wanted to ask her how the same thing could be so ugly and glorious, and its words and stories so damning and brilliant.


Markus Zusak


#life #paradox #life

How ya doin'?' I always think, What kind of a question is that?, and I always reply, 'A bit early to tell.


Christopher Hitchens


#irony #questions #love

It is really not so repulsive to see the poor asking for money as to see the rich asking for more money. And advertisement is the rich asking for more money.


G.K. Chesterton


#hypocrisy #irony #philanthropy #money

There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence.


Malcolm Muggeridge


#mystery #nature

The blessing of the omnivore is that he can eat a great many different things in nature. The curse of the omnivore is that when it comes to figuring out which of those things are safe to eat, he's pretty much on his own.


Michael Pollan


#nature

Nobody can tell what I suffer! But it is always so. Those who do not complain are never pitied.


Jane Austen


#histrionics #hysterics #irony #mrs-bennett #suffering

I say let the world go to hell, but I should always have my tea.


Fyodor Dostoyevsky


#individualism #irony #selfishness #tea #hell