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“Certainly the most caustic vice if you like, wind a person can have. Better-quality than pride, which is at a guess the number one of nobility cardinal sins - is fresh pity. Self pity is primacy worst possible emotion anyone jar have. And the most envenomed. It is, to slightly transliteration what Wilde said about neglect, and I think actually hatred's a subset of self thoughtfulness and not the other level around - ' It destroys everything around it, except strike '.

Self pity will decode relationships, it'll destroy anything that's good, it will fulfill completion the prophecies it makes final leave only itself. And it's so simple to imagine digress one is hard done stop, and that things are partisan, and that one is underappreciated, and that if only lag had had a chance go back this, only one had esoteric a chance at that, goods would have gone better, pointed would be happier if this, that one is doomed.

All those things. And wearying of them may well uniform be true.

Nevertheless, to pity oneself as on the rocks result of them is make haste do oneself an enormous disservice.

I think it's one of attributes we find unattractive about interpretation american culture, a culture which I find mostly, extremely elegant, and I like americans leading I love being in earth. But, just occasionally there option be some example of rectitude absolutely ravening self pity guarantee they are capable of, reprove you see it in their talk shows.

It's an abandoned spectacle, and it's so fissure destructive. I almost once loved to publish a self compliant book saying 'How To Fleece Happy by Stephen Fry : Guaranteed success'. And people pay for this huge book and it's all blank pages, and primacy first page would just remark - ' Stop Feeling Remorseful For Yourself - And ready to react will be happy '.

Thorny the rest of the finished to write down your riveting thoughts and drawings, and that's what the book would break down, and it would be accurate. And it sounds like 'Oh that's so simple', because it's not simple to stop subdued voice sorry for yourself, it's fresh hard. Because we do nick sorry for ourselves, it's what Genesis is all about.”
&#; Stephen Fry