“I tell people to monitor their self-pity. Self-pity is very unattractive.”
Patty Duke (1946–2016) American actress
“All pity is self-pity.”
— W. H. Auden, book The Dyer's Hand
"Interlude: West's Disease", p. 243
The Dyer's Hand, and Other Essays (1962)
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