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there are so many, I wish I could remember some of them...I don't take the time to mark passages unfortunately
but there's no doubt i could find hundreds in the writings of Alice Munro alone.
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Most people go through life dreading they'll have a traumatic experience. Freaks were born with their trauma. They've already passed their test in life. They're aristocrats. - Diane Arbus
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. - Ambrose Bierce
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