Has beens Quote by Zachary Lazar

I said in my earlier book, and find no reason for retracting my statement, that the famous Jewish sense of humour got lost in…

— George Mikes

The two pioneering forces of modern sensibility are Jewish moral seriousness and homosexual aestheticism and irony.

— Susan Sontag

The funny thing is that I write and I act a lot about being Jewish, but I don't really think about it as a…

— Liev Schreiber

I don't consider myself a Jewish writer.

— Ellen Ullman

“Irony keeps reality at a distance. It has become our primary method for combatting the external world’s incompatibility with our own desires. Today’s irony…

— Ian Bogost

I'm a Larry David fan, right? And it seems to me that Jewish history from the Talmud on has been a self-deprecating, self-critical kind…

— Peter Eisenman

When it comes to being Jewish, I can't help myself.

— Scott Rogowsky

“When the Jews wanted to make something emphatic, instead of adding an exclamation point or using italics, they would simply repeat it.”

— R.C. Sproul

Irony is the cultivation of the spirit and therefore follows next after immediacy; then comes the ethicist, then the humourist, then the religious person.

— Soren Kierkegaard

“Nothing more aggravating than a seamless, unremitting irony which leaves you no time to breathe and still less to think; which instead of being…

— Emil M. Cioran

I find it very hard to write about Jewish history.

— Simon Schama

“Being Jewish did not compromise the humanitarian and universalist ideals of my close relatives who, having experienced persecution close hand, were more concerned with…

— Daniel Waterman