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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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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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"Remember the words of Chairman Mao: 'It's always darkest before it's totally black.'."
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"My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists."
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"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
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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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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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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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"Pessimism never won any battle."
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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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"Pessimism is as American as apple pie - frozen apple pie with a slice of processed cheese."
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"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
"Looking at faces of people, one gets the feeling there's a lot of work to be done."
Work
"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail."
Will
"There are different kinds of artists and very often, I'll be very frank with you, I wish I were a different kind."
Artist
"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."
Absence
"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
Work
"I don't really consider myself a novelist, it just came out purely by accident."
Accident
"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 theater, because of its nature, both text, images, multimedia effects, has a wider base of communication with an audience. That's why I call it the most social of the various art forms."
Art
"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."
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