#irony

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The supreme irony of life is that hardly anyone gets out of it alive.


Robert A. Heinlein


#anyone #gets #hardly #irony #life

Users are a double-edged sword. They can help you improve your language, but they can also deter you from improving. So choose your users carefully, and be slow to grow their number. Having users is like optimization: the wise course is to delay it.


Paul Graham


#age

It is sometimes easier to be happy if you don't know everything.


Alexander McCall Smith


#irony #knowledge #beauty

The 21st chapter gives the novel the quality of genuine fiction, an art founded on the principle that human beings change. ----- "A Clockwork Orange Resucked" intro to first full American version 1986


Anthony Burgess


#american #intro #introduction #irony #philosophical

Would you like me to [kill you] now?" asked Snape, his voice heavy with irony. "Or would you like a few moments to compose an epitaph?


J.K. Rowling


#epitaph #irony #snape #death

In the center lay the exploded carcass of a lonely sperm whale that hadn't lived long enough to be disappointed with its lot.


Douglas Adams


#humor #irony #life #tragedy #death

And it was strange, I thought, that sorrow lasts and can make a man look forward to death, but the mood of victory fills a moment and then is over


V.S. Naipaul


#death

Three hours ago I was in bed, I thought miserably. I should have stayed there.


Diana Rowland


#death

I'm a survivor, " I said. But I didn't think that claim would carry much weight in an obituary.


Tobias Wolff


#epitaph #humor #irony #death

But you see, a rich country like America can perhaps afford to be stupid.


Barack Obama


#irony #irrelevant-nowadays #dreams