#vanity

You have a great deal of yourself on the line, writing— your vanity is at stake. You discover a tricky thing about fiction writing; a certain amount of vanity is necessary to be able to do it all, but any vanity above that certain amount is lethal. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#fun #the-nature-of-the-fun #vanity #writing #nature

Without the errors which are active in every psychical pleasure and displeasrue a humanity would never have come into existence--whose fundamental feeling is and remains that man is the free being in a world of unfreedom, the external miracle worker whether he does good or ill, the astonishing exception, the superbeast and almost-god, the meaning of creation which cannot be thought away, the solution of the cosmic riddle, the mighty ruler over nature and the despiser of it, the creature which calls its history world history!--Vanitas vanitatum homo. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#vanity #nature

Vanity is becoming a nuisance, I can see why women give it up, eventually. But I'm not ready for that yet. ↗

— Margaret Atwood

#women #vanity

Nothing makes one so vain as being told that one is a sinner. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#vanity #vanity

Vanity working on a weak head, produces every sort of mischief. ↗

— Jane Austen

#head #mischief #produces #sort #vanity

I don't really lift weights. It's kind of a vanity thing that I don't get into. ↗

— Jeremy London

#i #into #kind #lift #really

You must renounce all superficiality, all convention, all vanity and delusion. ↗

— Gustav Mahler

#delusion #must #renounce #superficiality #vanity

There is perhaps no more obvious vanity than to write of it so vainly. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#obvious #perhaps #than #vainly #vanity

The world is all a carcass and vanity, The shadow of a shadow, a play And in one word, just nothing. ↗

— Michel de Montaigne

#just #nothing #one word #play #shadow

Doing press is like eating at McDonald's: while it's going on it's vaguely enjoyable - you're seduced by your own vanity and taking yourself rather seriously - but immediately afterwards you feel sick. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#doing #eating #enjoyable #feel #going