Quote #46

It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail.

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  1. Envy is the central fact of American life.
  2. I can understand companionship. I can understand bought sex in the afternoon, but I cannot understand the love affair.
  3. Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies.
  4. As one gets older, litigation replaces sex.
  5. We have ceased to be a nation under law but instead a homeland where the withered Bill of Rights, like a dead trumpet vine, clings to our p…
  6. A narcissist is someone better looking than you are.
  7. Happily for the busy lunatics who rule over us, we are permanently the United States of Amnesia. We learn nothing because we remember nothi…
  8. Never pass up a chance to have sex or appear on television.

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