"Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience". "What's pessimism?" I said. "Religion without God."

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Source : Jonathan Kellerman (2007). “Obsession: An Alex Delaware Novel”, p.43, Ballantine Books

Jonathan Kellerman

#Optimism Quotes #Denial Quotes #Life Experience Quotes

“Scratch a Jew and you'll find a Wailing Wall.”
“One day the "Don't Knows" will get in and then where will we be?”
“I am becoming increasingly difficult to please as a reader, but I adore being surprised by a really wonderful book, written by someone I've never heard of before.”
“Eating coals of fire has always been one of the sensational feats of the Fire Kings, as it is quite generally known that charcoal burns with an extremely intense heat.”
“Delayed gratification is the one thing we ignore these days. And if you delay it, it becomes more pleasurable later in life.”
“The photograph that discovers and uncovers the world is harder to simulate than an image that simply illustrates one's ideas about it.”

Source : Fred Ritchin (1990). “In our own image: the coming revolution in photography : how computer technology is changing our view of the world”
“I am a person who beats around the bush when I want to speak about my own feelings.”

Source : Source: omonatheydidnt.livejournal.com
“Everyone's parents were famous actors at my school, pretty much! I think I went to school with Paris Hilton when I was three. That's what L.A. is, though - it's an industry town. You go to school with kids and you think, 'Well that's normal, they make movies.”

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