"Envy is the religion of the mediocre" — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
"Envy is the religion of the mediocre"
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241 Quotes by Carlos Ruiz Zafon
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I like to believe that storytelling transcends age limitations.
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Childhood devotions make unfaithful and fickle lovers.
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He didn't know whether we created God in our own image or whether God created us without quite knowing what…
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Man is a moral animal abandoned in an amoral universe and condemned to a finite existence with no other prupose…
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Are you not tempted to create a story for which men and women would live and die, for which they…
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The greatest multiplex in the universe is inside your mind, and the only ticket you need is a good, well-written…
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I always felt that I was a writer, that was what I had to do.
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The wider the author's arsenal of tools and the better technically equipped the storyteller is, the better the tale will…
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I became a writer, a teller of tales, because otherwise I would have died... or worse.
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I'm interested in everything. I don't see why Borges can't work along with Neil Gaiman, or Stephen King can't be…
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that as long as we are being remembered, we remain alive.
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Once, in my father's bookshop, I heard a regular customer say that few things leave a deeper mark on a…
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More Envy Quotes
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Jealousy is both reasonable and belongs to reasonable men, while envy is base and belongs to the base, for the…
— Aristotle
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Envy's a coal comes hissing hot from Hell.
— Philip James Bailey
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The show business has all phases and grades of dignity, from the exhibition of a monkey to the exposition of…
— P T Barnum
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Envy, like the worm, never runs but to the fairest fruit; like a cunning bloodhound, it singles out the fattest…
— Francis Beaumont
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Glamour cannot exist without personal social envy being a common and widespread emotion.
— John Berger
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Love looks through a telescope; envy, through a microscope.
— Josh Billings
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It is in the character of very few men to honor without envy a friend who has prospered.
— Aeschylus
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He who goes unenvied shall not be admired.
— Aeschylus
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Never trust anyone who wants what you've got. Friend or no, envy is an overwhelming emotion.
— Eubie Blake
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God's truth judges created things out of love, and Satan's truth judges them out of envy and hatred.
— Dietrich Bonhoeffer
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Jealousy is no more than feeling alone against smiling enemies.
— Elizabeth Bowen
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Nearly every glamorous, wealthy, successful career woman you might envy now started out as some kind of schlep.
— Helen Gurley Brown
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