"One has to have a complicated kind of optimism. You can't refuse to look at how horrible things are."

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Source : Tony Kushner, Robert Vorlicky (1998). “Tony Kushner in Conversation”, p.148, University of Michigan Press

#Optimism Quotes #Looks Quotes #Kind Quotes

“If I find out I have to write today and nothing else, thatâ€™s a perfect day. I know a lot of people who are great at it and make it look easy who are tortured and miserable people. Writing for me is perfect peace.”
“As many serve the Virgin as serve God.”
“Inspiration cannot be willed, though it can be wooed.”
“Don't forget the prices are so high in theater; it isn't really where a young person can go on a date and buy two tickets and take someone out anymore.”
“Alas, how many have been persecuted for the wrong of having been right?”
“The human heart, at whatever age, opens to the heart that opens in return.”

Source : Maria Edgeworth (1837). “Helen, etc”, p.52
“A sense of humor has been linked with longevity. It is a possibility that the mental attitude reflected in a lively sense of humor is an important factor predisposing some people toward long life.”
“Do not give, as many rich men do, like a hen that lays her eggs ...and then cackles.”

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