It's not that there is no small talk... It's that it comes not at the beginning of conversations but at the end... Sensitive people...'enjoy small talk only after they've gone deep' says Strickland. 'When sensitive people are in environments that nurture their authenticity, they laugh and chitchat just as much as anyone else. Susan Cain
If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life.
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Terry Pratchett
Life–the way it really is–is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse
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Joseph Brodsky
Every ounce of my cynicism is supported by historical precedent.
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Glen Cook
Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.
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Leon Trotsky
All I ask is one thing, and I’m asking this particularly of young people: please don’t be cynical. I hate cynicism, for the record, it’s my least favorite quality and it doesn’t lead anywhere. Nobody in life gets exactly what they thought they were going...
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Conan OBrien
More Quotes By Susan Cain
I'm a drinker with writing problems.
I am a drinker with writing problems.
I respect kindness in human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men...
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
A Torontonian is a man who leaves culture to his wife.
