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I have written narratives and contemplated scenarios in which many would give up and capitulate while my own characters and those of other writers have pressed on. This is a quality I love in people. When I do not see an incurable optimism in another I am immediately less attracted to that person. If someone has a defeatist attitude in life then that person has very little wisdom to share, save for a greater attention to detail in recounting the tragedies which have befallen them and the place of those tragedies in their history of mediocrity. | I have written narratives and contemplated scenarios in which many would give up and capitulate while my own characters and those of other writers have pressed on. This is a quality I love in people. When I do not see an incurable optimism in another I am immediately less attracted to that person. If someone has a defeatist attitude in life then that person has very little wisdom to share, save for a greater attention to detail in recounting the tragedies which have befallen them and the place of those tragedies in their history of mediocrity. | ||
What I hope to accomplish then is to portray men and women, aliens and children, who, in spite of the greatest adversity and hardship, press on | What I hope to accomplish then is to portray men and women, aliens and children, who, in spite of the greatest adversity and hardship, press on nevertheless. | ||
====Where I see this Group in Five Years==== | ====Where I see this Group in Five Years==== |
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