"It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that."

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In the midst of my skeptical, cynical, often pessimistic nature exists a slender capacity to believe, if only temporarily, in a guiding, unseen power, and whenever this happens, I go with it. That's what inspiration is. You don't get it from the gods. You make it.

— Jeffrey Eugenides