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Envy is the religion of the mediocre. It comforts them, it soothes their worries, and finally it rots their souls, allowing them to justify their meanness and their greed until they believe these to be virtues.
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When we feel like victims, all our actions and beliefs are legitimized, however questionable they may be.
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Tell me what you boast of and I'll tell you what you lack.
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Poetry is written with tears, fiction with blood, and history with invisible ink...
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Normally, the more talent one has, the more one doubts it, and vice versa.
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I think you judge yourself too severely, a quality that always distinguishes people of true worth.
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It seems that in the advanced stages of stupidity, a lack of ideas is compensated for by an excess of ideologies.
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Vidal is a sentimentalist who still believes in those profoundly un-Spanish myths such as meritocracy or giving opportunities to those who deserve them rather than to the current favorite.
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continued: and what he covets the most: his name printed on a miserable piece of paper that surely will outlive him. A writer is condemned to remember that moment, because from then on he is doomed and his soul has a price.
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The first paragraph of this book is to die for: A writer never forgets the first time he accepted a few coins or a word of praise in exchange for a story. He will never forget the sweet poison of vanity in his blood and the belief that, if he succeeds in not letting anyone discover his lack of talent the dream of literature will provide him with a roof over his head, a hot meal at the end of the day, and.....
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