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- From: glazier@isr.harvard.edu (Andrew Baker Glazier)
- Newsgroups: alt.quotations
- Subject: Re: My fave quote for the '90s
- Keywords: Gore Vidal quote Generation X
- Message-ID: <1992Dec22.221059.16369@burrhus.harvard.edu>
- Date: 22 Dec 92 22:10:59 GMT
- References: <BzMxrF.76D@world.std.com> <1992Dec22.195752.19174@osf.org>
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- In article <1992Dec22.195752.19174@osf.org> elliston@osf.org (David Elliston) writes:
- >In article <BzMxrF.76D@world.std.com> kieran@world.std.com (Aaron L Dickey) writes:
- >> "Whenever a friend succeeds, a little something in me dies."
- >>
- >> --Gore Vidal
- >
- >That reminds me of his other remark:
- >
- > "It is not enough to succeed. Others must fail."
- >
- >David
- "everyone else," not "others"
- And I believe he was not the first to say it
-
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- I come to bury this dirtball, not to praise him. Whaddya |harvard.isr.edu
- think I am? Whether it's nobler for the mind to make people suffer with all
- these totally outrageous arrows arrows for a fortune, or what!" -- D.R.
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