“I’m being ironic. Don't interrupt a man in the midst of being ironic, it’s not polite.”
Ray Bradbury book The Martian Chronicles
Usher II (1950)
Source: The Martian Chronicles (1950)
“I’m not interested in being polite. It’s false.”
— Libba Bray, book The Diviners
Source: The Diviners
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Source: prevale.net