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#1

“No persons are more frequently wrong, than those who will not admit they are wrong.”
― François de La Rochefoucauld

tags: cynical, life, truth

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#2

“If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out.”
― Lawrence Ferlinghetti

tags: beatnik, cynical, funny, humour

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#3

“Catholics don't believe in divorce. We do believe in murder. There's always Confession, after all.
--Brianna Fraser to Roger MacKenzie”
― Diana Gabaldon, An Echo in the Bone

tags: cynical, marriage

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#4

“Some people are in such utter darkness that they will burn you just to see a light. Try not to take it personally.”
― Kamand Kojouri

tags: betray, betrayal, bullies, bully, bullying, burn, cheat, cheater, corrupt, cynical, cynics, dark, darkness, hateful, hostile, kamand, kamand-kojouri, kojouri, liar, light, lying, malevolent, malicious, negative, negative-people, negativity, pessimistic, pessimists, spiteful, toxic, toxic-people, toxicity, vengeful, vicious, vindictive

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#5

“My congratulations to you, sir. Your manuscript is both good and original; but the part that is good is not original, and the part that is original is not good. ”
― Samuel Johnson

tags: cynical, funny, humour, review

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#6

“One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger.”
― Francois de La Rochefoucauld, Maxims

tags: courage, cynical, danger, life

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#7

“They speak very well of you".
- "They speak very well of everybody."
- "That so bad?"
- "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.”
― Iain M. Banks

tags: culture, cynical, dialogue, paranoid

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#8

“Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.”
― Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

tags: analogy, cynical, india

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#9

“Most writers regard the truth as their most valuable possession, and therefore are economical in its use.”
― Mark Twain

tags: cynical, funny, humour, review

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#10

“The worst moment for the atheist is when he is really thankful and has nobody to thank.”
― Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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#11

“If you stare at someone long enough, they'll eventually look back at you.”
― Cory Doctorow, Little Brother

tags: abyss, cynical, negative, nietzsche, people

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#12

“There's nothing deeper than love. In fairy tales, the princesses kiss the frogs, and the frogs become princes. In real life,the princesses kiss princes, and the princes turn into frogs.”
― Paulo Coelho, By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept

tags: bitterness, cynical, humour, love, ugly-truths

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#13

“It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.”
― Jess C. Scott, Blind Leading Another

tags: control, control-freaks, control-issues, cynic, cynical, cynical-humor, cynicism, lust, lust-for-everything, marriage, married-life, sarcasm, sarcastic, sarcastic-humor, spouse, spouses

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#14

“And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing.”
― William S. Burroughs

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#15

“Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.”
― D.H. Lawrence

tags: cynical, life-lessons

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#16

“It's just so perfuck.”
― Toba Beta, Master of Stupidity

tags: cynical

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#17

“The universe is a meat grinder and we're just pork in designer shoes, keeping busy so we can pretend we're not all headed for the sausage factory. Maybe I've been hallucinating this whole time and there is no Heaven and Hell. Instead of having to choose between God and the devil, maybe our only real choice comes down to link or patty?”
― Richard Kadrey, Kill the Dead

tags: cynical, existential

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#18

“Nothing is more humbling than to look with a strong magnifying glass at an insect so tiny that the naked eye sees only the barest speck and to discover that nevertheless it is sculpted and articulated and striped with the same care and imagination as a zebra. Apparently it does not occur to nature whether or not a creature is within our range of vision, and the suspicion arises that even the zebra was not designed for our benefit.”
― Rudolf Arnheim

tags: cynical, science

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#19

“Life is not a list of checkboxes that we have to tick off sequentially one after another. Got a degree? Tick. Booked a house under my name? Tick. Got married? Tick. Had Children? Tick. All this sound too cliché, too depressing. These are acts which people do under the influence of peer pressure, mimicking each other, and not willingly as a genuine choice of their own.”
― Abhaidev, That Thing About You

tags: conventional, cynical, life, life-lessons, life-quotes, mimic, peer-pressure, rat-race

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#20

“I can never get used to the fact, though I know it, that women are born cynics. Men have to learn cynicism. Infant girls could teach it to them.”
― Ursula K. Le Guin, Lavinia

tags: cynical, sexism, women

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#21

“Humans are part of nature, and nature is one great big wood chipper. Sooner or later, everything shoots out the other end in a spray of blood, bones, and hair.”
― Douglas Coupland, Player One: What Is to Become of Us

tags: cynical, humanity, nature

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#22

“The girls said she was too cynical about love, but how could you not be? On the surface, relations between men and women were all soft kisses and white gowns and hand-holding. But underneath they were a scary, complicated, ugly mess, just waiting to rise to the surface.”
― J. Courtney Sullivan, Commencement

tags: complicated, cynical, love, mess, relationships

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#23

“...you're either gonna spend your life fucking pussy, or taking it to church.”
― Dave Matthes, Bar Nights

tags: alcoholism, ambition, autumn, blood, booze, bottle, bravery, comedy, cynical

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#24

“Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.”
― Meghan Ciana Doidge, After The Virus

tags: cynical, insightful, reality, survival

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#25

“Republican or Democrat, this nation's affluent urban and suburban classes understand their bread is buttered on the corporate side. The primary difference between the two parties is that the Republicans pretty much admit that they grasp and even endorse some of the nastiest facts of life in America. Republicans honestly tell the world: "Listen in on my phone calls, piss-test me until I'm blind, kill and eat all of my neighbors right in front of my eyes, but show me the money! Let me escape with every cent I can kick out of the suckers, the taxpayers, and anybody else I can get a headlock on, legally or otherwise." Democrats, in contrast, seem content to catalog the GOP's outrages against the Republic, showing proper indignation while laughing at episodes of The Daily Show. But they stand behind the American brand: imperialism. They "support our troops," though you will be hard put to find any of them who have served alongside them or who would send one of their own kids off to lose an eye or an arm in Iraq. They play the imperial game, maintain their credit ratings, and plan to keep the beach house and the retirement investments if it means sacrificing every damned Lynndie England in West Virginia.”
― Joe Bageant, Deer Hunting with Jesus: Dispatches from America's Class War

tags: cynical, democrat, hypocrisy, politics, republican

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#26

“Seeing ourselves as others see us would probably confirm our worst suspicions about them.”
― Franklin P. Adams

tags: cynical

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#27

“George stared at the dove. What would she say if she could speak to him? What would she wish for, for her father? For she, too, had been harmed by a man who had meant to show his utmost love for her.
It made George wonder why love was suppose to be such a wonderful thing. As far as he could tell, love was just another excuse for causing pain.”
― Mette Ivie Harrison, The Princess and the Hound

tags: betrayal, cynical, heartbreak, hurt, love, pain

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#28

“The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.”
― Criss Jami, Diotima, Battery, Electric Personality

tags: activity, bore, boredom, boring, contagious, cynic, cynical, cynicism, funny, humor, mediocrity, people, yawn, yawning

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#29

“- We're winning!

- Who is 'we', mon Prince?

- Not a word! I will tell you tomorrow.”
― Talleyrand

tags: cynical, schemer

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#30

“Often those that criticise others reveal what he himself lacks.”
― Shannon L. Alder

tags: adversity, conflict, criticism, defaming, gossip, hatred, hypocrisy, hypocrisy-in-everyone, hypocrites, insecurity, jealous-women, jealousy, judgement, low-self-esteem, revenge, rumors, self-observation, slander, women

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