Chapter 19

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19 The difference between envy and jealousy is subtle but distinct, once you know the flavors and contours of both. Jealousy is wanting what someone else has, like for example, wanting the same kind of car or house as a neighbor. (Or wanting to be the man who owns your girlfriend’s heart rather than some WASP-y asshole who probably has a drawer just for all of his cuff links.) Envy is hating the fact that someone else has something you don’t, and hating them for having it, like wanting to s***h your neighbor’s tires because he doesn’t f*****g deserve a BMW and everyone f*****g knows it, and if you can’t have it, then it’s no f*****g fair that he gets to have one either. Sterling fell into this last category. It’s not that he wanted Poppy necessarily, not beyond the way he probably wante

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