"A thought may be very commendable as a thought, but I value it chiefly as a window through which I can obtain insight on the thinker."

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It struck me that the chief obstacle to marital contentment was this perpetual gulf between the well-founded, commendable pessimism of women and the sheer dumb animal optimism of men, the latter a force more than any other responsible for the lamentable state of the world.

— Michael Chabon