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 Lillian Hellman
It's a sad day when you find out that it's not accident or time or fortune, but just yourself that kept things from you.
I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.
Writers are interesting people, but often mean and petty.
I like people who refuse to speak until they are ready to speak.
Well, there are people who eat the earth and eat all the people on it like in the Bible with the locusts. Then there are people who stand around and watch them eat it. (Softly) Sometimes I think it ain't right to stand and watch...
