Brando Skyhorse quotes

“Faith is a luxury for those who are able to ignore what the rest of us must see every day. Pessimism, distrust, and irony are the holy trinity of my religion, irony in particular.”
-- Brando Skyhorse

Source : Brando Skyhorse (2010). “The Madonnas of Echo Park: A Novel”, p.156, Simon and Schuster

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“The time between your first major fight with your best friend until you make up is, for a teenage girl, about as long as it took for God to create the universe. . . . It's excellent training for having a boyfriend.”
-- Brando Skyhorse

Source : Brando Skyhorse (2010). “The Madonnas of Echo Park: A Novel”, p.138, Simon and Schuster

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“Yes, but don't forget I also have the luxury of the worlds finest band when it gets lonely.”

“For me, hard work represents the supreme luxury of life.”

“But just disease to luxury succeeds, And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.”

“I knew that even if I was able to call for help, I was in a place so remote that it wasn't likely there would be anyone who could help me. And even if there were, it could take weeks.”

“You have to be able to fail with the improv. You have to not care.”

“Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.”

“The irony is palpable - technical access has never been greater, cultural access never weaker.”

“When I was young I had no means or time, and now I have the means and time, I have no youth.”

Source : Bess Streeter Aldrich (1994). “A Lantern in Her Hand”, p.241, U of Nebraska Press

“At the best, sarcasms, bitter irony, scathing wit, are a sort of swordplay of the mind. You pink your adversary, and he is forthwith dead; and then you deserve to be hung for it.”

“Corporate irony not only ridicules the thing it is selling but the very act of selling it. In the process it disarms critics by making anyone who goes against the flow of commerce seem clueless.”