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"I found, when I left, that there were others who felt the same way. We'd meet, they'd come and seek me out, we'd talk about the future. And I found that their depression and pessimism was every bit as acute as mine."
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"I foresee that man will resign himself each day to new abominations, and soon that only bandits and soldiers will be left."
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"If you believe the world is conspiring against you it will just do that, you will help on by your pessimism action to prove you are right."
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"I don't believe in pessimism. If something doesn't come up the way you want, forge ahead. If you think it's going to rain, it will."
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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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"Seeing the glass as half empty is more positive than seeing it as half full. Through such a lens the only choice is to pour more. That is righteous pessimism."
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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
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"I never said I was sad, I'm just pessimistic, said Alecto. "Expect the worst, that way you'll never be disappointed, Mandy Valems."
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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"The nationalist not only does not disapprove of atrocities committed by his own side, but he has a remarkable capacity for not even hearing about them."
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"Thought he, it's a wicked world in all meridians; I'll die a pagan."
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"Even when I'm writing plays I enjoy having company and mentally I think of that company as the company I'm writing for."
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"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
Artist
"Very conscious of the fact that an effort was being made to destroy my mind, because I was deprived of books, deprived of any means of writing, deprived of human companionship. You never know how much you need it until you're deprived of it."
Being
"But when you're deprived of it for a lengthy period then you value human companionship. But you have to survive and so you devise all kinds of mental exercises and it's amazing."
Companionship
"I'm not one of those writers I learned about who get up in the morning, put a piece of paper in their typewriter machine and start writing. That I've never understood."
Machine
"There's a kind of dynamic quality about theater and that dynamic quality expresses itself in relation to, first of all, the environment in which it's being staged; then the audience, the nature of the audience, the quality of the audience."
Nature
"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."
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"Power is domination, control, and therefore a very selective form of truth which is a lie."
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"I consider the process of gestation just as important as when you're actually sitting down putting words to the paper."
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"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done."
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