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Betrayal clearly has its own reward: the small deep human satisfaction of having one up on someone else. It is the psychology…
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Can you rework your past, the grit that rubs in you, until it is shiny and smooth as a pearl?
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Per capita the East Germans drank more than twice as much as their West German counterparts.
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The cynic sees only cynicism, the depressive can taint creation with one glance
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We don't catch hold of an idea, rather the idea catches hold of us and enslaves us and whips us into the…
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Memory, like so much else, is unreliable. Not only for what it hides and what it alters, but also for what it…
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This vast life - the real, interior one in which we remain linked to the dead (because the dream inside us ignores…
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I remember learning German - so beautiful, so strange - at school in Australia on the other side of the earth. My…
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I had very good eyes once. Though it's another thing to say what I saw. In my experience, it is entirely possible…
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At the end of our lives it is our loves we remember most, because they are what shaped us. We have grown…
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Most people have no imagination. If they could imagine the sufferings of others, they would not make them suffer so.
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For anyone to understand a regime like the GDR, the stories of ordinary people must be told. Not just the activists or…
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Remember, beneath every cynic there lies a romantic, and probably an injured one.
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I'm very used to playing the tomboy or the sarcastic cynic. That's my go-to. Playing the vulnerable of a real girl that's…
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Cynic, n: a blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.
— Ambrose Bierce
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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…
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The cynic finds love with the idealist. The rebel with the conformist. The social butterfly with the bookworm. They help each other…
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There is nothing so pitiful as a young cynic because he has gone from knowing nothing to believing nothing.
— Maya Angelou
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A cynic is not merely one who reads bitter lessons from the past, his is also one who is permanently disappointed in…
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The scholar without good breeding is a pedant; the philosopher, a cynic.
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Idealist: a cynic in the making.
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A cynic is just a man who found out when he was ten that there wasn't any Santa Claus, and he's still…
— James Gould Cozzens
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The cynic is his own worst enemy. It requires far less skill to run a wrecking company than it does to be…
— Uell Stanley Andersen
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The cynic is one who never sees a good quality in a man, and never fails to see a bad one. He…
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