"irony is a way of having one's..." - Quote by John Updike
irony is a way of having one's cake while appearing to eat it.
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“Many men are more faithful to their golf partners than to their wives and have stuck with them longer.”
“To be President of the United States, sir, is to act as advocate for a blind, venomous, and ungrateful client.”
“I must say, when I reread myself, it's the poetry I tend to look at. It's the most exciting to write, and it's over the quickest.”
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“We were talking briefly about cocaine... yeah. Anything that makes you paranoid and impotent, give me more of that!”
“A lady of honor may be raped once, but it strengthens her virtue.”
“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”
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“A beautiful woman seductively dressed will never catch cold no matter how low-cut her gown.”
“Our apparitions, the things you know us by, are simply childish. Beneath it is all dark, it is all spreading, it is unfathomably deep; but now and again we rise to the surface and that is what you see us by.”
“The soul of this man is his clothes.”