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What's in the cave, Russell?' Madigan asked with heavy sarcasm. I shrugged. 'Rocks. Lots of 'em.' 'Don't patronize me.' His voice lowered to a hiss. 'What else is in the cave?' I looked him straight in the eye and spoke one word. 'Mud. — Jeaniene Frost（Attribution unverified） |
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But I'll be fine. I'll be with Tod. He's a good guy, you know." He just hides it under all the sarcasm and curls. — Rachel Vincent（Attribution unverified） |
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As I said, this was my sarcastic summer. It was only long after that I recognized sarcasm as the protest of people who are weak. — John Knowles（Attribution unverified） |
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Oh yeah, you’re a regular sage. Shouldn’t you be sitting on a mountain somewhere cultivating a long white beard waiting for knowledge seekers to come to you?” “Have I mentioned that sarcasm has the potential to be detrimental to the natural beauty of your face?” he countered. — Jacquelyn Frank（Attribution unverified） |
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Keep up," said an irritable voice in her ear. It was Jace, who had dropped back to walk beside her. "I don't want to have to keep looking behind me to make sure nothing's happened to you." "So don't bother." "Last time I left you alone, a demon attacked you," he pointed out. "Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. — Cassandra Clare（Attribution unverified） |
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This looks like one of those unwelcome social summonses which call upon a man either to be bored or to lie. — Arthur Conan Doyle（Attribution unverified） |
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Some sarcasm is best told simply. — Kevin Hart（Attribution unverified） |
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The one function that TV news performs very well is that when there is no news we give it to you with the same emphasis as if it were. — David Brinkley（Attribution unverified） |
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Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery of the largest and most challenging forms with music of great emotional power and technical invention...All his works are marked by emotional extremes - tragic intensity, grotesque and bizarre wit, humour, parody, and savage sarcasm. — Dmitri Shostakovich（Attribution unverified） |
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It's like in most parts of America, where there was industry and there is no longer; there is cynicism mixed with sarcasm and some optimism. That's how my background influenced my comedy. — Jim Gaffigan（Attribution unverified） |
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An economist is a man who states the obvious in terms of the incomprehensible. — Alfred A. Knopf, Sr.（Attribution unverified） |
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I find that the further I go back, the better things were, whether they happened or not. — Mark Twain（Attribution unverified） |
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I love Americans, but not when they try to talk French. What a blessing it is that they never try to talk English. — Hector Hugh Munro（Attribution unverified） |
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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?. — George Bernard Shaw（Attribution unverified） |
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The best way to sell yourself to others is first to sell the others to yourself. Check yourself against this list of obstacles to a pleasing personality: interrupting others; sarcasm; vanity; being a poor listener; insincere flattery; finding fault; challenging others without good cause; giving unsolicited advice; complaining; attitude of superiority; envy of others' success; poor posture and dress. — Harold Geneen（Attribution unverified） |
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I just want you that's it. All your flaws, mistakes, smiles, giggles, jokes, sarcasm. Everything. I just want you — Sara Quin（Attribution unverified） |
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An economist is a surgeon with an excellent scalpel and a rough-edged lancet, who operates beautifully on the dead and tortures the living. — Nicolas Chamfort（Attribution unverified） |
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Somebody says, 'Do a Tom Bodett, a folksy kind of thing,' and it sounds like something out of 'Hee Haw,' very insulting. They turn wry humor into disparaging sarcasm, and you get what amounts to insulting advertising. — Tom Bodett（Attribution unverified） |
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Politics makes estranged bedfellows. — Goodman Ace（Attribution unverified） |
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It's better to be black than gay because when you're black you don't have to tell your mother. — Charlie Pierce（Attribution unverified） |