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• The most irritating thing about cliches, I decided, was how frequently they were true.

  Diana Gabaldon

  Cliche, Decided

  Diana Gabaldon (2012). “The Outlander Series 7-Book Bundle: Outlander, Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, A Breath of Snow and Ashes, An Echo in the Bone”, p.1689, Dell

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• I've always admired your ability to be unilaterally irritating.

  Jim Butcher

  Ability

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Small Favor: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.32, Penguin

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• Cecil flashed a grin. "Quite. Plus your rather irritating habit of treating your superior officers as your, ah..." Cecil paused, apparently groping again for just the right word. "Equals?" Miles hazarded. "Cattle," Cecil corrected judiciously.

  Lois McMaster Bujold

  Habit, Miles, Plus

  Lois McMaster Bujold (1990). “Vorkosigan's Game”

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• One of the remarkable things about love is that, despite very irritating people writing poems and songs about how pleasant it is, it really is quite pleasant.

  Daniel Handler

  Song, Writing, Love Is

  "The greatest Lemony Snicket quotes ever" by Heather Sandlin, www.theguardian.com. December 30, 2015.

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• No-pocket jeans are only slightly less irritating than thong underwear.

  Patricia Briggs

  Jeans, Pockets, Underwear

  Patricia Briggs (2011). “River Marked”, p.146, Penguin

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• I thought you were supposed to be pretending I don’t exist, not irritating me to death.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Twilight, Bella Swan, Pretending

  "Twilight". Book by Stephenie Meyer, October, 2005.

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• Last comes the class of persons, of nervous organization and enfeebled vigour, whose sensual appetite craves highly seasoned dishes, men of a hectic, over-stimulated constitution. Their eyes almost invariably hanker after that most irritating and morbid of colours, with its artificial splendours and feverish acrid gleams,-orange.

  Joris-Karl Huysmans

  Eye, Men, Class

  Joris-Karl Huysmans (2015). “Against the Grain: (À rebours)”, p.14, BoD – Books on Demand

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• Peter was not with them for the moment, and they felt rather lonely up there by themselves. He could go so much faster than they that he would suddenly shoot out of sight, to have some adventure in which they had no share. He would come down laughing over something fearfully funny he had been saying to a star, but he had already forgotten what it was, or he would come up with mermaid scales still sticking to him, and yet not be able to to say for certain what had been happening. It was really rather irritating to children who had never seen a mermaid.

  James M. Barrie

  Lonely, Stars, Children

  James M. Barrie (2015). “Peter Pan: Top 100 Classic Novels”, p.32, 谷月社

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• When you develop an infatuation for someone you always find a reason to believe that this is exactly the person for you. It doesn’t need to be a good reason. Taking photographs of the night sky, for example. Now, in the long run, that’s just the kind of dumb, irritating habit that would cause you to split up. But in the haze of infatuation, it’s just what you’ve been searching for all these years.

  Alex Garland

  Running, Beach, Believe

  "The Beach". www.imdb.com. February 2, 2010.

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• It was like being around a particularly irritating two-year-old.

  Charlaine Harris

  Years, Two Year Olds, Two

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.785, Penguin

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• How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Bombarded By, People, Bombarded

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• The population of earth has reached 7 billion people, every single one of whom send you irritating emails to join something called "LinkedIn."

  Dave Barry

  Funny, Technology, People

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• Lyndon Johnson is still the most formidable, fascinating, frustrating, irritating individual I think I've ever known in my entire life. He was huge, a huge character, not only standing six feet four, but when you talked to him, he violated the normal human space between people. He was a great storyteller. The problem was that half his stories, I discovered, weren't true.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Character, Thinking, Space

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• Traveling is irritating to me, but not driving. Going to the airport makes me nervous, but when I set out to just take a leisurely drive, it's blue skies and puffy clouds and time.

  Edward Ruscha

  Clouds, Airports, Blue

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• Every actor-performer says this, and it sounds so irritating, but I'm not the most outgoing person.

  Billy Eichner

  Sound, Actors, Outgoing

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• Most people find facts irritating. Facts interfere with their systems of denial.

  Walter Darby Bannard

  Truth, People, Denial

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• I would like to sound like James Mason. I reckon if I'd had a better voice I could have been prime minister. It is the most irritating voice in public life.

  Ken Livingstone

  Voice, Sound, Prime

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• Year-end financial statements express a truth about office life which is no less irrefutable yet also, in the end, no less irrelevant or irritating than an evolutionary biologist's proud reminder that the purpose of existence lies in the propagation of our genes.

  Alain de Botton

  Lying, Years, Year End

  "The Pleasures and Sorrows of Work". Book by Alain de Botton, 2009.

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• I have tried to be impartial, though I know that a man's past always colors his views, and that nothing else is so irritating as impartiality.

  Will Durant

  Past, Men, Views

  "The Story of Civilization Part VI the Reformation". Book by Will Durant and Ariel Durant, 1957.

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• Laws directed against opinions affect the generous-minded rather than the wicked, and are adapted less for coercing criminals than for irritating the upright.

  Baruch Spinoza

  Law, Wicked, Criminals

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• Freedom released the energies of the masses not by exhilarating but by unbalancing, irritating, and goading.

  Eric Hoffer

  Freedom, Energy, Mass

  Eric Hoffer (1982). “Between the Devil and the Dragon: The Best Essays and Aphorisms of Eric Hoffer”, HarperCollins Publishers

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• Get a friend to tell you your faults, or better still, welcome an enemy who will watch you keenly and sting you savagely. What a blessing such an irritating critic will be to a wise man, what an intolerable nuisance to a fool!

  Charles Spurgeon

  Wise, Blessing, Men

  Charles H. Spurgeon (2010). “Lectures to My Students”, p.148, Zondervan

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• Reading is a very different thing than performing. In fact, one of the things I think that doesn't work in books on tape is if the person doing the reading "acts" too much; it becomes irritating to you listening to it.

  Salman Rushdie

  Book, Reading, Thinking

  "Salman Rushdie brings 'Midnight's Children' to big screen". Interview with Matt Carey, www.cnn.com. May 6, 2013.

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• On a single day, I read articles where I was described as being alternately 'lanky,' 'pudgy,' 'doughy,' 'balding,' 'utterly forgettable,' and 'constantly irritating.

  Stephen Tobolowsky

  Articles, Forgettable

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• What is the origin of the urge, the fascincation that drives physicists, mathematicians, and presumably other scientists as well? Psychoanalysis suggests that it is sexual curiosity. You start by asking where little babies come from, one thing leads to another, and you find yourself preparing nitroglycerine or solving differential equations. This explanation is somewhat irritating, and therefore probably basically correct.

  David Ruelle

  Baby, Science, Finding Yourself

  David Ruelle (1993). “Chance and Chaos”, p.164, Princeton University Press

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