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- (n.) An idealist whose rose-colored glasses have been removed, snapped in two and stomped into the ground, immediately improving his vision. -- Rick Bayan, author of The Cynic's Dictionary (and host of this site)
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REQUIRED READING FOR CYNICS
- Selected Essays of Gore Vidal
- George Carlin: Brain Droppings
- J. K. Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces
- Vonnegut: Slaughterhouse-Five
- Heller: Catch-22
- Nabokov: Lolita
- The Portable Dorothy Parker
- The Vintage Mencken
- Bierce: The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary
- Twain: Letters from the Earth
- Waugh: The Loved One
- Oscar Wilde's Wit & Wisdom: A Book of Quotations
- Samuel Johnson's Insults
- Gulliver's Travels
- Shakespeare's Insults
- Kafka: The Complete Stories
- The Portable Nietzsche
- Baudelaire: Flowers of Evil/Fleurs du Mal
- Dostoyevsky: Notes from Underground
- Voltaire: Candide
- La Rochefoucauld: Maxims
- Rabelais: Gargantua and Pantagruel
- Lucian: Selected Satires
- The Satires of Juvenal
- Martial: The Epigrams
- Aristophanes: The Complete Plays
- Aesop's Fables
- Cassell Dictionary of Cynical Quotations
- The Book of Poisonous Quotes
- The Portable Curmudgeon