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The press is still investing itself, it seems to me, in a sort of cynicism. It comes out better for them if they can predict hard times, bogging down, sniping, attrition.


Christopher Hitchens


#better #comes #cynicism #down #hard

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.


Jeff Bridges


#alive #been #crushed #cynicism #cynics

You have to try to dismiss the loudness of cynicism. It's certainly going to come.


Kevin Costner


#come #cynicism #dismiss #going #try

Cynicism is intellectual treason.


Norman Cousins


#intellectual #treason

That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.


Mike Carey


#cynicism #religion

Dantes had entered the Chateau d’If with the round, open, smiling face of a young and happy man, with whom the early paths of life have been smooth. and who anticipates a future corresponding with his past. This was now all changed. The oval face was lengthened, his smiling mouth had assumed the firm and marked lines which betoken resolution; his eyebrows were arched beneath a brow furrowed with thought; his eyes were full of melancholy, and from their depths occasionally sparkled gloomy fires of misanthropy and hatred; his complexion, so long kept from the sun, had now that pale color which produces, when the features are encircled with black hair, the aristocratic beauty of the man of the north; the profound learning he had acquired had besides diffused over his features a refined intellectual expression; and he had also acquired, being naturally of a goodly stature, that vigor which a frame possesses which has so long concentrated all its force within itself.


Alexandre Dumas


#maturity #optimism #beauty

We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.


Paul Hoffman


#baby #childe #cynic #cynicism #enemy

You know what the critics are. If you tell the truth they only say you're cynical and it does an author no good to get a reputation for cynicism.


W. Somerset Maugham


#critics #cynical #cynicism #does #get

The worst cynicism: a belief in luck.


Joyce Carol Oates


#cynicism #luck #worst

In the end, that's what this election is about. Do we participate in a politics of cynicism or a politics of hope?


Barack Obama


#about #cynicism #election #end #in the end






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