Cronkite was always one step short of disillusionment.
“Cronkite is not a genius at anything except being straight, honest, and normal.”
“When he (Walter Cronkite) drank, he had an appetite for both history and political bullshit.”
“If life were fattening, Walter Cronkite would weigh 500 pounds.”
“I do not snivel that snivel the world over,That months are vacuums and the ground but wallow and filth,That life is a suck and a sell, and nothing remains at the end but threadbare crape and tears.”
“I spit on your happiness! I spit on your idea of life--that life that must go on, come what may. You are all like dogs that lick everything they smell. You with your promise of a humdrum happiness-...”
“Life is such unutterable hell, solely because it is sometimes beautiful. If we could only be miserable all the time, if there could be no such things as love or beauty or faith or hope, if I could ...”
“I have a history of making decisions very quickly about men. I have always fallen in love fast and without measuring risks. I have a tendency not only to see the best in everyone, but to assume tha...”
“Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.”
“The strength of a love is always misjudged if we evaluate it by its immediate cause and not the stress that went before it, the dark and hollow space full of disappointment and loneliness that prec...”
“Anyone who fights for the future, lives in it today.”
“See the exquisite contrast of the types of mind! The pragmatist clings to facts and concreteness, observes truth at its work in particular cases, and generalises. Truth, for him, becomes a class-na...”
“As long as your ideas of what's possible are limited by what's actual, no other idea has a chance.”