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If there's one thing that makes me cynical, it's optimists. They are just far too cynical about cynicism. If only they could see that cynics can be happy, constructive, even fun to hang out with, they might learn a thing or two.

I am not a cynic.

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.

One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.

I do get cynical, but what can you do? It doesn't make any difference.

I oscillate between being cynical and being naive on a regular basis. I always think that not much shocks me until something much too obvious does.

Cynicism is an unpleasant way of saying the truth.

I'm a hopeful cynic.