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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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"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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"Pessimism is a luxury that a Jew can never allow himself."
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"Pessimists are not boring. Pessimists are right. Pessimists are superfluous."
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"Cynicism is full of naive disappointments."
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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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"A pessimist? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself and hates them for it."
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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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"I cannot here withhold the statement that optimism, where it is not merely the thoughtless talk of those who harbor nothing but words under their shallow foreheads, seems to me to be not merely an absurd, but also a really wicked, way of thinking, a bitter mockery of the most unspeakable sufferings of mankind."
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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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"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."
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"The greatest threat to freedom is the absence of criticism."
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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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"And I believe that the best learning process of any kind of craft is just to look at the work of others."
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"And gradually they're beginning to recognize the fact that there's nothing more secure than a democratic, accountable, and participatory form of government. But it's sunk in only theoretically, it has not yet sunk in completely in practical terms."
Government
"The novel, for me, was an accident. I really don't consider myself a novelist."
Accident
"There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle."
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"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."
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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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"The hand that dips into the bottom of the pot will eat the biggest snail."
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