
Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.
– Paul Fussell
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- Ah, no, he did not want May to have that kind of innocence, the innocence that seals the mind against imagination and the heart against experience… – Edith Wharton
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- Kyoko sniffs, unable to speak. Sometimes saying nothing means most of all. – Sandy Fussell
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- Irony cleans away all those secret stains. Irony is the path that leads safely back to official realities. – Geoffrey Wall
- If we chose to refuse irony, we risk becoming irony’s dupe. – Janet Beizer
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- Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might bean overture for sarcasm. – Eraldo Banovac
- Irony? Irony can never be more than our own personal Maginot line; the drawing of it, for the most part, purely arbitrary. – Mark Z Danielewski
- Be extremely careful when using irony: bear in mind that irony might bean overture for sarcasm. – Eraldo Banovac
- You lost your innocence when you grew up, all right, everyone knew that, but did you have to lose your hope, as well? – Stephen King
- Hope is fuel for living; without it, we’ll stop here. – TemitOpe Ibrahim
- He wanted revenge and I knew he would not stop until he got it. I had to hope he would run out of fuel. – Brenda Perlin
- Hope is the fuel that raises our standards. Losing it deletes our most basic desires. – Doug Pedersen
- The universe loves irony even more than it loves futility. – Paul Russell
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