A Quote by Robert Stone
I try very hard to be fair, and I look for ironies. In a way, I live on ironies as a novelist.
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Humor is based on the way a man looks at life's ironies, and being a member of a minority group can certainly be ironic.
By multiplying ironies, I evade commitments.
Life is full of ironies and absurdities.
The ironies in the commonplace are my inspiration and delight.
Life is full of ironies and paradoxes.
I am a writer and a feminist, and the two seem to be constantly in conflict.... ever since I became loosely involved with it, it has seemed to me one of the recurring ironies of this movement that there is no way to tell the truth about it without, in some small way, seeming to hurt it.
Life is that perfect fine line between ironies.
One of the ironies of being a professional writer is that, if you are even moderately successful, the very traits that let you succeed as a writer are not much help when the time comes to head out as 'The Author.'
It is one of the ironies of history that reformers so often misjudge the consequences of their reforms.
One of the peculiar ironies of being a human self in the Cosmos: A stranger approaching you in the street will in a second's glance see you whole, size you up, place you in a way in which you cannot and never will, even though you have spent a lifetime with yourself, live in the Century of the Self, and therefore ought to know yourself best of all.
I suppose that's one of the ironies of life doing the wrong thing at the right moment.
One of the persistent ironies of reform is the impossibility of predicting the full consequences of change.
It's one of the tragic ironies of the theatre that only one man in it can count on steady work - the night watchman.
It's one of the ironies of human nature that the most sensitive people are generally insensitive to the feelings of others.
The difference of human being behind the guy on the page is in writing, I'm no longer conscious of personal repercussions because for that moment they don't exist. At times, I tell myself, Well, I can always go back and change that or take it out, and I find out that I rarely do. Couple little things here and there: Do unto others. Be a good scout. With all the ironies that entails, I go by that. That's a good way to live.
I believe the personal is the collective. One of the ironies of writing memoir is in using the "I" it becomes an alchemical "we." This is the sorcery of literature.
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