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Cynicism Quotes
"Heaven. The biggest waste of our time we ever invented, outside jigsaws."
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"Cynicism is the humour of hatred."
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"Most cynics are really crushed romantics: they've been hurt, they're sensitive, and their cynicism is a shell that's protecting this tiny, dear part in them that's still alive."
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"All these handsome guys are the same. When they're done combing their goddam hair, they beat it on you."
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"In bridge clubs and in councils of state, the passions are the same."
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"The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people."
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"Expect stupid. It's everywhere."
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"I know more damn perverts, at schools and all, than anybody you ever met, and they're always being perverty when I'm around."
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"Anything that has cynicism to it and that's jaded is smutty."
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"I guess the painkillers wipe out your memory along with your ethics."
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"I may have grown cynical from long service, but this is a tendency I do not like, and I sometimes think I'd rather be a dog and bay at the moon than stay in the Senate another six years and listen to it."
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"I am most proud of my integrity and least proud of my cynicism."
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"I think a lot of cynicism has dropped away from my shoulders since I stopped drinking."
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"Politicians are interested in the health of the people like predators savor live prey."
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"Motivating people, forcing them to your will, gives you a cynical attitude toward humanity. It degrades everything it touches."
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"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."
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"She liked me because she said that we both hated everything and knew that friendship was an act of desperation. She said that for a man I was alright. She said that people were half-way and if it was up to her a lot of people would get killed and a lot of men would be walking around without their balls. She said that they should go on sale for women to hang off their rearview mirrors."
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"It is through experience that I have lost faith in USA law enforcement."
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"Cynicism is that blackguard defect of vision which compels us to see the world as it is instead of as it should be."
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"People, generally, suck."
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"Love is more than blind. It's brain-dead."
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"Really high-minded people are indifferent to happiness, especially other people's."
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"Every gathering has its moment. As an adult, I distract myself by trying to identify it, dreading the inevitable downswing that is sure to follow. The guests will repeat themselves one too many times, or you'll run out of dope or liquor and realize that it was all you ever had in common."
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"The more expensive a school is, the more crooks it has - I'm not kidding."
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"No matter how kind you are, always expect a few imbeciles."
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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."
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"I've given up men. It's true. At first, I was just going to give up attorneys, but that seemed immature - and far too exclusive, so I'm playing it safe and giving up all the penis-carrying humans."
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"Knowing without loving is frankly dangerous for the soul and for society. You'll critique most everything you encounter and even have the hubris to call this mode of reflexive cynicism 'thinking' (whereas it's really your ego's narcissistic reaction to the moment). You'll position things to quickly as inferior or superior, 'with me' or 'against me, ' and most of the time you'll be wrong."
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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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