Thursday, October 31, 2013

The Ultimate V-word

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Vanity was what you needed to be a genuine artist. Vanity on a terrific scale.
You could talk all you wanted about stick-to-it-iveness, Faith-in-yourself
but nobody but an egotistical dumb-bell would have such blind faith in himself
that he'd stick to it for years, not noticing he was no better than anybody else.

Dawn Powell
Angels On Toast





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Footnote
The next Dawn Powell page is here.
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2 comments:

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    1. Even truth is subject to vanity. That's why we say things like
      "everlasting truth" and "absolute truth."

      Truth has a vast wardrobe of adjectives.

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