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My deepest impulses are optimistic, an attitude that seems to me as spiritually necessary and proper as it is intellectually suspect.

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Ellen Willis

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I’m a pessimist. But I think I’d describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

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For the most part, Americans speak of culture and politics as if they were two separate realms.

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April 26, 2024

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I’m a pessimist. But I think I’d describe my pessimism as broken-hearted optimism.

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