The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people.
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The doctor's wife wasn't a bad woman. She was sufficiently convinced of her own importance to believe that God actually did watch everything she did and listen to everything she said, and she was too taken up with rooting out the pride she was prone to feeling in her own holiness to notice any other failings she might have had. She was a do-gooder, which means that all the ill she did, she did without realizing it.
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It all depends on what you're talking about helping. That's the wonderful think about just about every religion on the planet - they're all so incredibly selfish.
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A cynic by experience, a romantic by inclination and now a hero by necessity.
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We are all cynics now, I suppose, and even a mewling infant knows that to save a life is to make an eternal enemy.
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It's weird, marriage. It's like this license that gives a person the legal right to control their spouse / their 'other half.
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That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any day of the week; at least you can play chicken with him and know he'll stick to the rules.
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I hate the world. Everything comes into it so clean and goes out so dirty. (from COVER CHARGE - currently not listed)
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Listen, O lord of the meeting rivers, things standing shall fall, but the moving ever shall stay.
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