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"Of the seven deadly sins, only envy is no fun at all."
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"Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life."
"Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read."
"Beggars do not envy millionaires though of course they will envy other beggars who are more successful."
"Worth begets in base minds, envy; in great souls, emulation."
"Though I have said that I envy the normal man to the last drop of my bile, yet I should not care to be in his place such as he is now (though I shall not cease envying him). No, no; anyway the underground life is more advantageous. There, at any rate, one can, Oh, but even now I am lying! I am lying because I know myself that it is not underground that is better, but something different, quite different, for which I am thirsting, but which I cannot find! Damn underground!"
"On every movie I've done as a director, I look at the producers and having done it, I don't envy them, at all."
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