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Humor for Cynics


“Scratch any cynic and you will find a disappointed idealist.”
― George Carlin

“I want my time to be taken up by chores, errands, appointments, and arguments. In other words, I want to get married.”
― Jarod Kintz

“As my father always used to tell me, 'You see, son, there's always someone in the world worse off than you.' And I always used to think, 'So?”
- Bill Bryson, The Lost Continent: Travels in Small Town America

“Show me somebody who is always smiling, always cheerful, always optimistic, and I will show you somebody who hasn't the faintest idea what the heck is really going on.”
― Mike Royko
 
“A true friend is a gift from God. Since God doesn't exist, guess what? Neither do true friends.”
― Scott Dikkers, You Are Worthless: Depressing Nuggets of Wisdom Sure to Ruin Your Day

“In the depths of my heart I can’t help being convinced that my dear fellow-men, with a few exceptions, are worthless.”
― Sigmund Freud, Letters of Sigmund Freud, 1873-1939

"Life—the way it really is—is a battle not between good and bad, but between bad and worse”
― Joseph Brodsky


“All I have to be thankful for in this world is that I was sitting down when my garter busted.”
― Dorothy Parker, The Portable Dorothy Parker

“...God created the world in six days. On the seventh day, he rested. On the eighth day, he started getting complaints. And it hasn't stopped since.”
― James Scott Bell, Sins of the Fathers

"No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.”
― Lily Tomlin

“The large print giveth and the small print taketh away.”
― Tom Waits, The Early Years: The Lyrics, 1971-1983

“If you behaved nicely, the communists wouldn't exist.”
― Jenny Holzer, Jenny Holzer

Bob, I've often thought that I should read Ayn Rand's "Atlas Shrugged" just for the experience and to know what it's all about so that I can present an intelligent argument against it.   And so I was in Barnes and Noble today and I honestly just happened to run into it. And when I saw how humongous it was, I thought, hell, I'll just ask Bob to summarize it for me. 

Good one, Bob. But I saw that book, too. It was homongous as well. Good try at weaslingly out of it. 

Lol, I guess I was being too oblique. I was ribbing you, Bob. You do it to me, too.  It's not difficult to find a summary of any book. You could have just given me a link. But actually I thought that you could have given me a short summary yourself. I am kind of interested in both of those books, but more interested to read a lot of others first, and our time no matter what, is limited. 

Thanks, Raybar! I do subscribe to Netflix and I hardly use it. So here's a good chance to do so. 

Thanks, Bob. I appreciate that. 

Thanks, Zak. But there's nothing new there that hasn't already been reported or that we didn't already know or heard of ad nauseum. 

Rand's philosophy is not just for geniuses. Many of the heroes in her books are ordinary people who have honesty, integrity, and love their work. For example, the construction worker, Mike Donnegan, in "The Fountainhead".

Bob

You,re quite welcome, Lily.

But bear in mind that you will be watching a movie based on a book, not the book itself. The movies may only have the basic story and the main characters. Sub plots, flash backs, minor characters, the author telling you what characters are thinking, and so on, are often dropped to condense a novel into a movie.