Taking a break from writing to wallow in my role as a curmudgeon.
Don't overestimate the decency of the human race.
--H.L. Mencken
A pessimist is person who has to listen to too many optimists.
--Don Marquis
My pessimism extends to the point of even suspecting the sincerity of other pessimists.
--Jean Rostand
Democracy: The worship of jackals by jackasses.
--H.L. Mencken
If you can't say anything good about someone, sit right here by me.
--Alice Roosevelt Longworth
Early to rise and early to bed
Makes a male healthy, wealthy and dead.
--James Thurber
Moderation is a fatal thing. Nothing succeeds like excess.
--Oscar Wilde
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginable.
--Oscar Wilde
Life is divided into the horrible and the miserable.
--Woody Allen
My heart is pure as the driven slush.
--Tallulah Bankhead
I know. I keep wondering how anything we do can matter. Puts me in such a funk that I have trouble writing. Then I get into a story and it helps me forget the "real world" so I'm not sure if that's good or bad. Maybe it is "neither good nor bad - but thinking that makes it so." Offered with a nod to Shakespeare.
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