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“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.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“CYNIC, n. A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.” Ambrose Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary
“I'm unhappy. If I was a cynic it would probably make me feel better.” Charles Bukowski, Ham on Rye
“His age was indeterminate. But in cynicism and general world weariness, which is a sort of carbon dating of the personality, he was about seven thousand years old.” Terry Pratchett, Guards! Guards!
“Give me priests who are fat and corrupt and cynical . . . the sort who like to sit on soft satin cushions, nibble sweetmeats, and diddle little boys. It’s the ones who believe in gods who make the trouble.” George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons
“Some cynical Frenchman has said that there are two parties to a love-transaction: the one who loves and the other who condescends to be so treated.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Vanity Fair

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