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"The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes."
"One cannot answer for his courage when he has never been in danger."
"One should never know too precisely whom one has married"
"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."
"The wise man tests before he talks. The critic but follows the fad of a cynical and apathetic age."
"For myself, I find I become less cynical rather than more--remembering my own sins and follies; and realize that men's hearts are not often as bad as their acts, and very seldom as bad as their words."
"The rarest quality in an epitaph is truth."
"So long as human history continues, we will face the perennial challenge of realizing, maintaining and strengthening peace through dialogue, of making dialogue the sure and certain path to peace. We must uphold and proclaim this conviction without cease, whatever coldly knowing smiles or cynical critiques may greet us."
"The absent are never without fault. Nor the present without excuse."
"If there was anything that depressed him more than his own cynicism, it was that quite often it still wasn't as cynical as real life."
"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."
"I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever."
"Young people are cynical about love. Ultimately, cynicism is the great mask of the disappointed and betrayed heart."
"Bob Dylan was again an entirely new person - this time old, craggy, cynical, and world-weary, as in "Not Dark Yet"."
"No man in his heart is quite so cynical as a well-bred woman."
"I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really."
"When the king asked him what he meant by infesting the sea, the pirate defiantly replied: The same as you do when you infest the whole world; but because I do it with a little ship I am called a robber, and because you do it with a great fleet, you are an emperor."
"I think the major problem in growing up is to become sophisticated without becoming cynical."
"We should take heart from our own experience and performance. In a cynical world we have become an inspiration to many."
"A woman is faithful to her first lover for a long time - unless she happens to take a second."
