#vanity

La vanidad se encuentra en los lugares más inesperados: al lado de la bondad, de la abnegación, de la generosidad. ↗

— Ernesto Sabato

#vanity

A person can't help their birth. ↗

— William Makepeace Thackeray

#vanity

It is less mortifying to believe one's self unpopular than insignificant, and vanity prefers to assume that indifference is a latent form of unfriendliness. ↗

— Edith Wharton

#insignificance #unpopularity #vanity #vanity

I think it is vanity to want to put into a story anything but the story itself. ↗

— Julio Cortázar

#writing #vanity

The problem is hedonism. The problem is the preening vanity and selfishness of 'coming out,' of parading private inclinations, of a kind that repel normal people, as if those inclinations were, all by themselves, marks of authenticity and virtue, of suffering and oppression. ↗

— John Derbyshire

#hedonish #selfishness #vanity #pessimism

You are not permitted to kill a woman who has wronged you, but nothing forbids you to reflect that she is growing older every minute. ↗

— Ambrose Bierce

#revenge #vanity #women #humor

Let the writer take up surgery or bricklaying if he is interested in technique. There is no mechanical way to get the writing done, no shortcut. The young writer would be a fool to follow a theory. Teach yourself by your own mistakes; people learn only by error. The good artist believes that nobody is good enough to give him advice. He has supreme vanity. No matter how much he admires the old writer, he wants to beat him. ↗

— William Faulkner

#writing-advice #vanity

I'm amazing and studly, but I have limits. ↗

— Jim Butcher

#thomas-raith #vanity #humor

But the vain man did not hear him. Vain men never hear anything but praise. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

#vanity #men

I always felt like I was meant to have been born in another era, another time. ↗

— Johnny Depp

#era #interview #magazine-interview #quote #time