Irony is Fate’s most common figure of speech.
– Trevanian
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- Don’t try to figure out the whole race. Just figure out where to put your foot for the starting line. Just start. – Jeff Olson
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- The irony of life: Realizing a lifetime is barely long enough to figure out how it should have been lived. – Richelle E Goodrich
- When someone is using negative speech, do not ruin your own speech. – Dada Bhagwan
- Language is neither reactionary nor progressive; it is quite simply fascist; for fascism does not prevent speech, it compels speech. – Roland Barthes
- If you defend free speech for bigots but not to combat bigotry, then you believe in bigotry, not free speech. – DaShanne Stokes
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- If you turned your back on irony, it curdled into sarcasm. And what good was it then? Sarcasm was irony which had lost its soul. – Julian Barnes
- 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 kind. It’s worthwhile to make an effort to learn about other people and figure out what you might have in common with them. – Viggo Mortensen
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- Maybe I write because I’ve learned to show certain parts of my heart on the page that I still struggle to capture in speech. – Common
- The decision of their fates lay elsewhere, and the thought of that alone was utterly terrifying. – Ross Turner
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- That loss is common would not makeMy own less bitter, rather more:Too common! Never morning woreTo evening, but some heart did break. – Alfred Tennyson