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“Life's generally artless, but it does get these occasional hard-ons for plot. It connects things, nefariously, behind yor back, and before you know it you're in a final act of a lousy movie. A lous...”
“Think for youself but not because I said so!”
“The first of Gooses Two Laws of Survival. It runs thus, The weak are meat the strong do eat. ... Henry grinned in the dark & cleared his throat. The second law of survival states that there is no s...”
“If there is any hell more unprincipled than our rulers, and we, the ruled, I feel curious to see it.”
“Are you always so cynical?' said Angelica.'No,' said Katherine. 'Sometimes I'm asleep.”
“True cynics kill themselves. The rest are posers, trying to use clever sarcasm and snarky remarks to hide insecurity and the fear that if they put themselves out there, they will fail.”
“Preferring the nausea of the path to its fated and certain ending.”
“I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much in the sympathy of my fellow men. But we have all a chance of meeting with some pity, some tendern...”
“The pessimist reason that things just happen, where the optimist believe that things happen for a reason.”
“Every man alive is half idiot & half hero. Only heroes could survive in this maelstrom & only idiots would want to.”
“Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.”
“I've gotten very cynical and kind of anhedonic about all the things I have to do to get to do comedy: all the travel, hotels, and airports.”
“Roses," she thought sardonically, "All trash, mdear.”
“I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.”
“Any American who is prepared to run for president should automatically, by definition, be disqualified from ever doing so.”
“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
“A lifetime spent in the study of the history of societies since the dawn of mankind presumably inclined him to skepticism and misgivings in regard to any great scheme, religious or political, that ...”
“There just isn’t enough cock in this world to be caught suckin’ and be called anything but a slut for life. The cynic in me would call it a bad habit, but that’d make me a whore in denial and if th...”
“Marriage is always something of a compromise, as I'm sure you're now aware. Any long-term relationship is - and one does have to see it in the long term, Charles. No, I expect your mother and mysel...”
