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People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.
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People Have Different Ideas, Emotional Ideas, Of

Jeff Koons
People have different ideas, emotional ideas, of what certain words mean, and they think of irony as something that's more associated with being cynical-it's kind of a put-down.
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I don't like the word ironic. i like the word absurdity, and i don't really understand the word 'irony' too much. the irony comes when you try to verbalize the absurd. when irony happens without words, it's much more exalted.
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I don't mock things, which makes me more vulnerable to mockery myself. if you're cynical, you're protected from mockery. but i have to be nice. i don't think i have irony. a sense of humour, yes, but not irony.
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Don’t talk like that, dill,” said aunt alexandra. “it’s not becoming to a child. it’s – cynical.” “i ain’t cynical, miss alexandra. tellin’ the truth’s not cynical, is it?” “the way you tell it, it is.
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I don't think irony is about judgment; i think irony is something like, "oh, that's interesting," because it's not something i think one starts off to achieve. i think it's just something that presents itself. and if it does, i find it's usually optimistic, not negative in its terms.
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For we let our young men and women go out unarmed in a day when armor was never so necessary. by teaching them to read, we have left them at the mercy of the printed word. by the invention of the film and the radio, we have made certain that no aversion to reading shall secure them from the incessant battery of words, words, words. they do not know what the words mean; they do not know how to ward them off or blunt their edge or fling them back; they are prey to words in their emotions instead of being the masters of them in their intellects.
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Irony is a disciplinarian feared only by those who do not know it, but cherished by those who do. he who does not understand irony and has no ear for its whispering lacks of what might called the absolute beginning of the personal life. he lacks what at moments is indispensable for the personal life, lacks both the regeneration and rejuvenation, the cleaning baptism of irony that redeems the soul from having its life in finitude though living boldly and energetically in finitude.
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