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"It is good to be a cynic - it is better to be a contented cat - and it is best not to exist at all."
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"When young people are cynical, and snarky, they shoot down their own future. When you keep saying "No," all that's left is what other people said "Yes" to before you were born. Really, "No" is no choice at all."
"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."
"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."
"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."
"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."
"People, generally, suck."
"You're not exactly up for the Humanitarian of the Year award, so save your altruism for someone who can't see through you like cellophane."
"Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey."
"All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you."
"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking."
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"I never ask a man what his business is, for it never interests me. What I ask him about are his thoughts and dreams."
"If religion were true, its followers would not try to bludgeon their young into an artificial conformity; but would merely insist on their unbending quest for truth, irrespective of artificial backgrounds or practical consequences."
"If I could create an ideal world, it would be an England with the fire of the Elizabethans, the correct taste of the Georgians, and the refinement and pure ideals of the Victorians."
"We shall see that at which dogs howl in the dark, and that at which cats prick up their ears after midnight."
"Heaven knows where I'll end up - but it's a safe bet that I'll never be at the top of anything! Nor do I particularly care to be."
"Blue, green, grey, white, or black; smooth, ruffled, or mountainous; that ocean is not silent."
"I am disillusioned enough to know that no man's opinion on any subject is worth a damn unless backed up with enough genuine information to make him really know what he's talking about."
"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."
"There be those who say that things and places have souls, and there be those who say they have not; I dare not say, myself, but I will tell of The Street."
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