Candace Bushnell Quotes

The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

I'm just shocked at how blatantly shallow people are sometimes.

The vanity of loving fine clothes and new fashion, and placing value on ourselves by them is one of the most childish pieces of folly.

I was kind of a selfish child, who always wanted things his way, and I've kind of taken that over into my relationship with the world.

I look back on my life and have to face the fact that I have been narcissistic and selfish.

I felt that I had worked hard my entire life and deserved to enjoy all the temptations around me. I felt I was entitled, and thanks to money and fame, I didn't have to go far to find them.

The baby boomers are the most spoiled, most self-centered, most narcissistic generation the country's ever produced.

Withhold admiration from a narcissist and be disliked. Give it and be treated with indifference.

Imagining that you are deep and complex, but others are simple, is one of the primary signs of malignant selfishness.

From now on, I'm not doing anything I don't want to do! The world owes me happiness, fulfillment and success... I'm just here to cash in.

I was a normal child. Which is to say, I was selfish and I was not entirely convinced of the existence of things that were not me, and I was certain, rock-solid, unshakeably certain, that I was the most important thing in creation. There was nothing that was more important to me than I was.

People who are wrapped up in themselves make small packages.

The biggest problem is our lack of "response-ability." That’s what happens when money rather than love is the bottom line. People act like idiots.

Donald Trump is a person who is an insecure money-grubber who cares about nothing but himself.

Donald Trump always puts himself first.

... Arthur Gride, whose bleared eyes gloated only over the outward beauties, and were blind to the spirit which reigned within, evinced - a fantastic kind of warmth certainly, but not exactly that kind of warmth of feeling which the contemplation of virtue usually inspires.

Selfishness is the only real atheism.

Who made you the center of the universe?

I am not a villain.I'm an only-child narcissist monster, but I wish no ill, nor do I wish for world domination; what a hassle that would be!

A fair share of anything is starvation diet to an egomaniac.

To consider persons and events and situations only in the light of their effect on me is to live on the doorstep of hell. Selfishness is doomed to frustration centered as it is upon a lie. To live exclusively for myself, I must make all things bend themselves to my will as if I were a god.

One of the marks of a certain type of bad man is that he cannot give up a thing himself without wanting everyone else to give it up.

The covetous person lives as if the world were made altogether for him, and not he for the world.

'A reality shaped around your own desires' - there is something sociopathic in that ambition.