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Optimism is denial for chumps with no life experience. What's pessimism? I said. Religion without God.

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Jonathan Kellerman
Age: 75
Born: 1949
Born: August 9
Novelist
Psychologist
Writer
New York City
New York
Jonathan Seth Kellerman
Religion
Experience
Without
Life
Chumps
Pessimism
Denial
Optimism

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