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What is a cynic? A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Perhaps the biggest myth about cynicism is that it deepens with age. I think what really happens is that experience painfully rips away layers of scales from our eyes, and so we do indeed become more cynical about many of the things we naively accepted when younger.

I vehemently deny that I was born a cynic and a pessimist.

Cynicism is tough. A cynic's point of view is really pitiful. I derive pleasure out of a lot of things in life. As long as I'm fairly healthy, it's hard to stay dismal for very long.

I'm rather a cynic, I suppose. I do not believe in the niceness of humanity.

I'm an old-timey gal.