“There is no disappointment so numbing… as someone no better than you achieving more.”
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“A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.”
Quoted in "Vidal: 'I'm at the Top of a Very Tiny Heap,'" profile by Michiko Kakutani, The New York Times (12 March 1981), Late City Final Edition, Section C, Page 17, Column 1.
1980s
“It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.”
Variant: It's far better to be unhappy alone than unhappy with someone — so far.
Source: On Being Blonde (2007), p. 52
“There is always someone out there getting better than you by training harder than you.”
Eric Stanley on CBS News https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ksYrWGivy5A
2011
“There's nothing more dangerous than someone who wants to make the world a better place.”
Existencilism (2002)
Interview with Laura Yorke. Reader's Digest. July 2006
