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A collection of quotes I've kept for a while now. I add new ones fairly regularly, generally once or twice every week. Topics will be anything I find interesting that day, from famous writers, online forums, and everyone in between. Mail me quotes you find interesting, or leave them in comments.

Before this post:
• At the edge of understanding, on the threshold of ...
• Death: can't even get things done
• Messengers
• When I Was A Boy
• Five or six more things
• The heat!
• All the Unreasonable People
• Viva voce
• The Company of Immortals
• The grandeur of her successes and her failures

A tremendous debt is owed to the following:

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Optimism

Optimism, n.: The belief that everything is beautiful, including what is ugly, good, bad, and everything right that is wrong. It is held with greatest tenacity by those accustomed to falling into adversity, and most acceptably expounded with the grin that apes a smile. Being a blind faith, it is inaccessible to the light of disproof -- an intellectual disorder, yielding to no treatment but death. It is hereditary, but not contagious.

-- Ambrose Bierce

[ 02 September 2006 2:36 am submitted by Unknown ]

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