#cynical

It's an indication of how cynical our society has become that any kind of love story with a sad theme is automatically ridiculed as sentimental junk. ↗

— Winona Ryder

#automatically #become #cynical #how #indication

But I'm trying not to be cynical - I don't want to be one of those people who has a cool opportunity and blows it. It's really amazing what's happening to me. ↗

— Shannyn Sossamon

#blows #cool #cynical #happening #i

Students now arrive at the university ignorant and cynical about our political heritage, lacking the wherewithal to be either inspired by it or seriously critical of it. ↗

— Allan Bloom

#arrive #critical #cynical #either #heritage

It is one of the consolations of middle-aged reformers that the good they inculcate must live after them if it is to live at all. ↗

— Saki

#wry #age

It's just so perfuck. ↗

— Toba Beta

#cynicism

Si al final mis problemas no eran solubles, cuando menos serían adulterables. ↗

— Xavier Velasco

#humor #problems #humor

Marc Marronnier is twenty-seven years old, he has a beautiful apartment, a cool job and still he doesn't kill himself. Go figure. ↗

— Frédéric Beigbeder

#beauty

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

#sexism #women #men

- "They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them. ↗

— Iain Banks

#cynical #dialogue #paranoid #cynicism

And if you're doing a deal with a religious son of a bitch, get it in writing. ↗

— William S. Burroughs

#cynical #cynicism