Jessamyn West
“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.”
“A taste for irony has kept more hearts from breaking than a sense of humor, for it takes irony to appreciate the joke which is on oneself.”
“One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.”
“People might not get all they work for in this world, but they must certainly work for all they get.”
“Music is essentially useless, as life is.”
“The covers of this book are too far apart.”
“Everything is in a state of flux, including the status quo.”
“Character is what you have left when you’ve lost everything you can lose.”
“There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.”
“Both the cockroach and the bird would get along very well without us, although the cockroach would miss us most.”
“I loathe people who keep dogs. They are cowards who haven’t got the guts to bite people themselves.”