“I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.” —Dorothy Sayers That’s twice this thread I’ve seen this Vonnegut quote as a thought-t

“I always have a quotation for everything - it saves original thinking.” —Dorothy Sayers That’s twice this thread I’ve seen this Vonnegut quote as a thought-terminating cliche, which is two times too many. If you want to have a deeper discussion on the effects of irony on a community, by all means let’s do so. What we should not do is reduce the entire thing down to a pithy mess of fake profundity based on the fame of its speaker, that would be shouted down as the unsubstantiated conclusion it is, if any one of us said it.