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To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction wi

To cure jealousy is to see it for what it is, a dissatisfaction with self, an impossible claim that one should be at once Rose Bowl princess, medieval scholar, Saint Joan, Milly Theale, Temple Drake, Eleanor of Aquitaine, one – Joan Didion

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Grammar is a piano I play by ear. All I know about grammar is its power. – Joan Didion

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Before Id written movies, I never could do big set-piece scenes with a lot of different speakers – when youve got twelve people around a dinner table talking at cross purposes. I had always been impressed by other peoples ability to do that. – Joan Didion

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I never admire anothers fortune so much that I became dissatisfied with my own. – Marcus Tullius Cicero

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Envy eats nothing, but its own heart. – Proverb

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None of the affections have been noted to fascinate and bewitch but envy. – Francis Bacon

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The disease of jealously is so malignant that is converts all it takes into its own nourishment. – Joseph Addison

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