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 | "A narcissist is someone better looking than you are." | |
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Gore Vidal
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| "An ostentatious man will rather relate a blunder or an absurdity he
has committed, than be debarred from talking of his own dear
person." | |
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Joseph Addison
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| "Don"t let your ego get too close to your position, so that if your
position gets shot down, your ego doesn"t go with it." | |
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Colin Powell
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| "EGOTIST, n. A person of low taste, more interested in himself than
in me." | |
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Ambrose Gwinett Bierce
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| "Every time we start thinking we"re the center of the universe, the
universe turns around and says with a slightly distracted air, "I"m sorry.
What"d you say your name was again?"" | |
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Margaret Maron
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| "I have nothing to declare except my genius." | |
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Oscar Wilde
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| "I may not be totally perfect, but parts of me are excellent." | |
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Ashleigh Brilliant
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| "It is time I stepped aside for a less experienced and less able
man." | |
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Professor Scott Elledge
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| "Nobody can be exactly like me. Sometimes even I have trouble doing
it." | |
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Tallulah Bankhead
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| "Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in
his own terms." | |
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Elizabeth Bowen
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| "One of the symptoms of an approaching nervous breakdown is the
belief that one"s work is terribly important." | |
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Bertrand Russell
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| "So ego, then, is the absence of true knowledge of who we really are,
together with its result: a doomed clutching on, at all costs, to a cobbled
together and makeshift image of ourselves, an inevitably chameleon
charlatan self that keeps changing and has " | |
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Sogyal Rinpoche
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| "The advantage of doing one"s praising for oneself is that one can
lay it on so thick and exactly in the right places." | |
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Samuel Butler, the Younger
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| "The average American thinks he isn"t." | |
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Unknown
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| "The average person thinks he isn"t." | |
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Father Larry Lorenzoni
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| "The nice thing about egotists is that they don"t talk about other
people." | |
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Lucille S. Harper
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| "With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not
even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise
Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.... It would positively be
a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him." | |
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George Bernard Shaw
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