Don DeLillo Quotes About Irony

Quotes about: Irony

• No sense of the irony of human experience, that we are the highest form of life on earth, and yet ineffably sad because we know what no other animal knows, that we must die.

  Don DeLillo

  Animal, Earth, Irony

  "White Noise". Book by Don DeLillo, 1985.

• He took pains to avoid self-depreciation, self-mockery, ambiguity, irony, subtlety, vulnerability, a civilized world-weariness and a tragic sense of history--the very things, he says, that are most natural to him.

  Don DeLillo

  Pain, Self, World

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.24, Pan Macmillan

• In these night recitations we create a space between things as we felt them at the time and as we speak them now. This is the space reserved for irony, sympathy and fond amusement, the means by which we rescue ourselves from the past.

  Don DeLillo

  Mean, Past, Night

  Don DeLillo (2011). “White Noise”, p.35, Pan Macmillan

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