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• It must be, I thought, one of the race's most persistent and comforting hallucinations to trust that "it can't happen here" -- that one's own time and place is beyond cataclysm.

  John Wyndham

  Race, Comforting, Hallucinations

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• Hope is a state of mind independent of the state of the world. If your heart's full of hope, you can be persistent when you can't be optimistic. You can keep the faith despite the evidence, knowing that only in so doing has the evidence any chance of changing. So while I'm not optimistic, I'm always very hopeful.

  William Sloane Coffin

  Heart, Independent, Knowing

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• So everything lets us down, including curiosity and honesty and what we love best. Yes, said the voice, but cheer up, it's fun in the end.

  Roberto Bolano

  Cheer, Honesty, Fun

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• Human spirit is the ability to face the uncertainty of the future with curiosity and optimism. It is the belief that problems can be solved, differences resolved. It is a type of confidence. And it is fragile. It can be blackened by fear, and superstition. By the year 2050, when the conflict began, the world had fallen upon fearful, superstitious times.

  Bernard Beckett

  Fear, Years, Differences

  "Genesis". Book by Bernard Beckett, www.npr.org. 2010.

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• Look on the bright side," said Simon, "If they need a human sacrifice, you can always offer me. I'm not sure the rest of you qualify anyway.

  Cassandra Clare

  Sacrifice, Needs, Looks

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.565, Simon and Schuster

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• In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.

  May Sarton

  Mistake, Past, Night

  May Sarton (2014). “At Seventy: A Journal”, p.2, Open Road Media

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• Such is the influence which the condition of our own thoughts, exercises, even over the appearance of external objects. Men who look on nature, and their fellow-men, and cry that all is dark and gloomy, are in the right; but the sombre colours are reflections from their own jaundiced eyes and hearts. The real hues are delicate, and need a clearer vision.

  Charles Dickens

  Real, Heart, Eye

  Charles Dickens (1839). “Oliver Twist”, p.256

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• I actually grew fond of her in a nastily superior kind of way. For she was so completely artless and optimistic and clueless, she didn't care that she smelled bad or was fat or wore clothes unlike everyone else's, she had some weird disconnect with life that kept her constantly bubbling, and you knew she would go blithely through her long horribly boring life thinking every thing was just swell (the opposite of me).

  Peter Cameron

  Clueless, Thinking, Opposites

  Peter Cameron (2009). “Someday This Pain Will Be Useful to You: A Novel”, p.69, Macmillan

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• By four o'clock, I've discounted suicide in favor of killing everyone else in the entire world instead.

  Warren Ellis

  Suicide, Bad Ass, World

  "Transmetropolitan". Comic book series by Warren Ellis, 1997–2002.

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• THAT Perseus always won. That's why my momhad named me after him, even if he was son of Zeus ann I was son of Posidon. The original Perseus was one of the only heros in the greek myths who got a happy ending. The others died-betrayed, mauled, mutilated, poisoned, or cursed by the gods. My mom hoped i would inherit Perseus's luck. Judging by how my life was going so far, i wasn't too optimistic.

  Rick Riordan

  Mom, Hero, Son

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• Anybody who writes a book is an optimist. First of all, they think they're going to finish it. Second, they think somebody's going to publish it. Third, they think somebody's going to read it. Fourth, they think somebody's going to like it. How optimistic is that?

  Margaret Atwood

  Book, Writing, Thinking

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• You decide for yourself when it will hurt.

  Per Petterson

  Hurt

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• My faith in Christ is central to my life. My conversion from a pessimistic atheist lost in a world I didn't understand, to an optimistic believer in a universe created and sustained by a loving God is crucial to me. But following Christ does not mean following His followers. Christ is infinitely more important than Christianity and always will be, no matter what Christianity is, has been, or might become.

  Anne Rice

  God, Faith, Christian

  FaceBook post by Anne Rice from Jul 29, 2010

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• All around the dining hall, you can feel the rejuvenating effect that a good meal can bring on. The way it can make people kinder, funnier, more optimistic, and remind them it's not a mistake to go on living. It's better than any medicine.

  Suzanne Collins

  Mistake, Medicine, People

  Suzanne Collins (2010). “Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, Book 3)”, p.241, Scholastic Inc.

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• Once time is lit, it will burn whether or not you're breathing it in. Even after smoke becomes air, there is the memory of smoke. I am seeing as if by the light of a match, a glimpse of my life and having it feel right.

  David Levithan

  Memories, Light, Air

  David Levithan (2008). “The Realm of Possibility”, p.11, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything's fine today, that is our illusion.

  Voltaire

  Optimism, One Day, Today

  "Voltaire: Poeme sur le desastre de Lisbonne". Book by Voltaire (translated), 1756.

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• Stop being so...optimistic, its getting on my nerves." "No problem. Do you want me to be all gloom and doom or just shut up?" "Just shut up." "Can do." "Really? Doesn't seem like it." -Jacob and seth

  Stephenie Meyer

  Nerves, Want, Problem

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• Everybody is waiting for the end to come, but what if it already passed us by? What if the final joke of Judgment Day was that it had already come and gone and we were none the wiser? Apocalypse arrives quietly; the chosen are herded off to heaven, and the rest of us, the ones who failed the test, just keep on going, oblivious. Dead already, wandering around long after the gods have stopped keeping score, still optimistic about the future.

  Jonathan Nolan

  Long, Waiting, Heaven

  "Memento Mori". Short story by Jonathan Nolan, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• Do you go see her?" "No," I said, refusing to acknowledge that I'd just seen Lissa last night. "That's not my life anymore." "Right. Your life is all about dangerous vigilante missions." "You wouldn't understand anything that isn't drinking, smoking, or womanizing." He shook his head. "You're the only one I want, Rose." "Well, you can keep feeling that way, but you're going to have to keep waiting." "Much longer?" He asked me. "I don't know." Hope blossomed on Adrian's face. "That's the most optimistic thing you've told me so far.

  Richelle Mead

  Drinking, Night, Rose

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• If Melissa Miller were an artist, she would have painted the world in vicious streaks of red. Nothing like Picasso's rose period, all soft and cheerful and so optimistic that it made you want to puke. Missy's red phase would have been brutal and bright enough to cut your eyes. Missy's art would have been honest.

  Jackie Morse Kessler

  Art, Eye, Cutting

  Jackie Morse Kessler (2011). “Rage”, p.9, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• A woman who is self-reliant, positive, optimistic, and undertakes her work with the assurance of success magnetizes her condition. She draws to herself the creative powers of the universe.

  Orison Swett Marden

  Self, Creative, Assurance

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• Stop being so… optimistic. It’s getting on my nerves.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Black, Nerves, Jacob Black

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• I would assume that you were going to offer me refreshment, but the evidence so far suggests that that would be optimistic to the point of foolishness.

  J. K. Rowling

  Would Be, Assuming, Evidence

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince”, p.46, Pottermore

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• Of course the fall semester didn’t start for another eight weeks or so. There was always a chance we were both being overly optimistic in thinking I’d be alive when it rolled around.

  Jenna Black

  Fall, Thinking, Eight

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• I tried to think about other things. I tried to invent optimistic inventions. But the pessimistic ones were extremely loud.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Thinking, Pessimistic, Invention

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel”, p.235, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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