Envy Quote by Tom Stoppard

“I have a spasm of envy for the person that was killed by a falling bookcase, as long as it doesn't happen prematurely.”

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If I wanted to change the world, the last thing I would do is write a play.

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Childhood is Last Chance Gulch for happiness. After that, you know too much.

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After all these years, I definitely associate having a pen in my hand with having an ashtray just out of eye line.

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I'm not interested in clothes; I just like them.

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You should not translate for more than two hours at a time. After that, you lose your edge, the language becomes clumsy, rigid.

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No matter how imperfect things are, if you've got a free press everything is correctable, and without it everything is concealable.

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“He often remembered his dad's admonition that envy was mental theft. If you coveted another man's possessions, Dad said, then you should be willing…

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“I don't envy "busy." Busy means having a schedule, not living life. What I really covet is leisure and peace of mind. Those who…

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There is no sweeter sound than the crumbling of one's fellow man.

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Thinking, or more precisely identification with thinking, gives rise to and maintains the ego, which, in our Western society in particular, is out of…

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“Is it not strange that the more someone has, the less he feels he has? Envy can never be sated.”

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I avoid envy at all costs.

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Sometimes I envy painters, it is wonderful to remain in front of a bouquet of flowers a whole morning, or even longer. A photographer…

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avarice breeds envy, a worm that is always gnawing, letting the avaricious enjoy neither their own nor anyone else's good.

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“You don’t see someone flying and you begin to bite yourself for not being able to do that. You do what you can.”

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Knowledge forbidden? Suspicious, reasonless. Why should their Lord Envy them that? Can it be sin to know, Can it be death? And do they…

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