An optimist stays up until midnight to see the new year in. A pessimist stays up to make sure the old year leaves.
Bill VaughanAbout author
- Author's profession: Journalist
- Nationality: american
- Born: October 8, 1915
- Died: February 25, 1977
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Our language has wisely sensed these two sides of man’s being alone. It has created the word “loneliness” to express the pain of being alone. And it has created the word “solitude” to express the glory of being alone. Although, in daily life, we do not always distinguish these words, we should do so consistently and thus deepen our understanding of our human predicament.
Paul Tillich
Am I racially kin to this man? Baynes wondered. So closely so that for all intents and purposes it is the same? Then it is in me, too, the psychotic streak. A psychotic world we live in. The madmen are in power. How long have we known this? Faced this? And - how many of us do know it?
Philip K. Dick