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Unacknowledged Legislation: Writers in the Public Sphere

Book by Christopher Hitchens · 6 quotes · Advancing, Anthony Julius, Book

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“In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony originates in the glance and the shrug of the loser, the outsider, the despised minority. It is a nuance that comes most effortlessly to the oppressed.”