I’m an intelligent pessimist, a pessimist who has occasional flashes of optimism. Nearly everything happens for the worst, but not always, you see, nothing is ever always, but i’m always expecting the worst, and when the worst doesn’t happen, I get so excited I begin to sound like an optimist.
-Paul Auster
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