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> [Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a way into something important happening in modern-day culture.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/optimism-and-happiness-are-not-the-same-thing-but-they-are-becoming/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

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## More by Mark Ravenhill

> [Rereading Candide, I was struck by the link between optimism and the optimal, the idea that we have been placed in this optimal world…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/rereading-candide-i-was-struck-by-the-link-between-optimism-and-the/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [Twenty years ago, when you bumped into someone and asked how they were, they would say, 'Mustn't grumble' or 'Getting by': now they feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/twenty-years-ago-when-you-bumped-into-someone-and-asked-how-they-were/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [Optimism and happiness are not the same thing, but they are becoming interchangeable, and it seemed to me that Voltaire's Candide gave me a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/optimism-and-happiness-are-not-the-same-thing-but-they-are-becoming/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [The American journalist Barbara Ehrenreich has written about this in her book Smile or Die: How Positive Thinking Fooled America and the World (2009)…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/the-american-journalist-barbara-ehrenreich-has-written-about-this-in/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [The title's so upfront. It gives fair warning about the play's content. I'm writing about a kind of disenchantment, an anger, but quite a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/the-title-s-so-upfront-it-gives-fair-warning-about-the-play-s-content/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [There is a remarkable nimbleness of style, a balancing act of tone, in Voltaire, which is hard to bring off on stage. When you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/there-is-a-remarkable-nimbleness-of-style-a-balancing-act-of-tone-in/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [ I have adapted the whole book \[Candid\] into tweets of 140 characters, and these are being sent out daily, at the rate of eight… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/i-have-adapted-the-whole-book-candid-into-tweets-of-140-characters/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [In the business world, the idea of positive thinking is absolutely entrenched.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/in-the-business-world-the-idea-of-positive-thinking-is-absolutely/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [Theatre within theatre, when characters sees themselves on stage, always raises philosophical questions of choice and free will.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/theatre-within-theatre-when-characters-sees-themselves-on-stage/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [Even within single sentences, there are sudden changes of register. And when the travellers go to Venice, they see a play by Voltaire! This…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/even-within-single-sentences-there-are-sudden-changes-of-register-and/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [Translating Candide into tweets has really deepened my appreciation of his writing - it wouldn't work so well with nineteenth-century authors. Every single sentence…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/translating-candide-into-tweets-has-really-deepened-my-appreciation/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [ There is the question of language. Although the play \[Candid\] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat of rhyming… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/there-is-the-question-of-language-although-the-play-candid-is-not/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [Candide is one of those books I read when I was young and that I come back to regularly.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/candide-is-one-of-those-books-i-read-when-i-was-young-and-that-i-come/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [We are now so far advanced in our denial of evil that we want to rationalise it away.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/we-are-now-so-far-advanced-in-our-denial-of-evil-that-we-want-to/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

> [The financial crisis happened because no-one could actually say out loud how bad things were.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/mark-ravenhill/the-financial-crisis-happened-because-no-one-could-actually-say-out/)

[Mark Ravenhill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/mark-ravenhill/)

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