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 H. G. Wells
Adapt or perish now as ever is nature's inexorable imperative.