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The cure for cynicism is simply to engage honestly.

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

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 read some of my stories recently and thought, 'How in the hell did I get away with that?' I had some really raw cynicism in some of them.

I'm a hopeful 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.

I think I hate cynicism more than anything else. It's the curse of our age, and I want to avoid it at all costs.

Don't give in to cynicism. It is a toxic spiritual state.

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