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• Nevertheless, hateful as saying 'No' always is to an imaginative person, and certain as the offence may be that it will cause to individuals whose own work does not require isolated effort, the writer who is engaged on a book must learn to say it. He must say it consistently to all interrupters; to the numerous callers and correspondents who want him to speak, open bazaars, see them for 'only' ten minutes, attend literary parties, put people up, or read, correct and find publishers for semi-literate manuscripts by his personal friends.

  Vera Brittain

  Book, Party, People

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• Make sobriety a habit, and intemperance will be hateful; make prudence a habit, and reckless profligacy will be as contrary to the nature of the child, grown or adult, as the most atrocious crimes, are to any of us.

  Henry Brougham, 1st Baron Brougham and Vaux

  Children, Sobriety, Adults

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• Quite the ugliest face I ever saw was that of a woman whom the world called beautiful. Through its silver veil the evil and ungentle passions looked out, hideous and hateful. On the other hand, there are faces which the multitude, at first glance, pronounce homely, unattractive and such as "Nature fashions by the gross," which I always recognize with a warm heart-thrill. Not for the world would I have one feature changed; they please me as they are; they are hallowed by kind memories, and are beautiful through their associations.

  John Greenleaf Whittier

  Beautiful, Fashion, Memories

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• Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.

  Alice Duer Miller

  Silence, Friendly, Passionate

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• No man's condition is so base as his;
  None more accurs'd than he; for man esteems
  Him hateful, 'cause he seems not what he is;
  God hates him, 'cause he is not what he seems;
  What grief is absent, or what mischief can
  Be added to the hate of God and man?

  Francis Quarles

  Hate, Grief, Men

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• Foul jealousy! that turnest love divine to joyless dread, and makest the loving heart with hateful thoughts to languish and to pine.

  Edmund Spenser

  Jealousy, Heart, Divine

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• Religion has in fact outdone culture in dualistic thinking - we've become as violent, as hateful toward our enemies, damning them to hell and whatever else, that the world doesn't look to us for wisdom, because we're trapped in the dualistic mind, instead of the mind of Christ that we were supposed to have.

  Richard Rohr

  Thinking, Mind, Enemy

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• Obligation is thraldom, and thraldom is hateful.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Obligation

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• Whether it comes from a despotic sovereign or an elected president, from a murderous general or a beloved leader, I see power as an inhuman and hateful phenomen. To the same degree that I do not understand power, I do understand those who oppose power, who criticize power, who contest power, especially those who rebel against power imposed by brutality.

  Oriana Fallaci

  Power, Leader, President

  "The Agitator: Oriana Fallaci directs her fury toward Islam" by Margaret Talbot, in The New Yorker, June 5, 2006.

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• If the devil take a less hateful shape to us than to our fathers, he is as busy with us as with them.

  James Russell Lowell

  Father, Devil, Shapes

  James Russell Lowell (1870). “Among my Books, etc”, p.229

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• Goodness is equally hateful to the wicked, as vice is to the virtuous.

  Jane Porter

  Evil, Wicked, Vices

  Jane Porter (1801). “The two princes of Persia: addressed to youth”, p.40

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• Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His holy majesty; thou hast bereaved Him of beloved children; thou hast crucified the Son of His infinite love; thou hast vexed His gracious Spirit; thou hast defied His power; thou hast despised His grace; and in the body and blood of Jesus, as if that were a common thing, thou hast trodden under foot His matchless mercy. Surely, brethren, the wonder of wonders is, that sin is not that abominable thing which we also hate.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Jesus, Art, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 546, 1895.

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• Want is a bitter and a hateful good,
  Because its virtues are not understood;
  Yet many things, impossible to thought,
  Have been by need to full perfection brought.
  The daring of the soul proceeds from thence,
  Sharpness of wit, and active diligence;
  Prudence at once, and fortitude it gives;
  And, if in patience taken, mends our lives.

  John Dryden

  Taken, Giving, Perfection

  John Dryden (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of John Dryden (Illustrated)”, p.504, Delphi Classics

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• I never read one hateful thing said about me by some 12-year-old. So I got to live an actual life. And I've kept that mentality. Just because there's a hurricane going on around you doesn't mean you have to open the window and look at it.

  Taylor Swift

  Mean, Years, Hurricanes

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• I hate to see complacency prevail in our lives when it's so directly contrary to the teaching of Christ.

  Jimmy Carter

  Hate, Teaching, Smugness

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• In fear I hurried this way and that. I had the taste of blood and chocolate in my mouth, the one as hateful as the other.

  Hermann Hesse

  Blood, Chocolate, Mouths

  Hermann Hesse (2013). “Steppenwolf: A Novel”, p.196, Macmillan

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• Where do you get the right to decide our lives? I'll tell you where. From that little hog's gut that hangs between your legs. Well, let me tell you something... you will need more than that. I don't know where you will get it or who will give it to you, but mark my words, you will need more than that.... You are a sad, pitiful, stupid, selfish, hateful man. I hope your little hog's gut stands you in good stead, and you take good care of it, because you don't have anything else.

  Toni Morrison

  Selfish, Stupid, Men

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• To Hope "When by my solitary hearth I sit, And hateful thoughts enwrap my soul in gloom; When no fair dreams before my 'mind's eye' flit, And the bare heath of life presents no bloom; Sweet Hope, ethereal balm upon me shed, And wave thy silver pinions o'er my head.

  John Keats

  Dream, Sweet, Eye

  John Keats (1841). “The poetical works of John Keats”, p.195

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• As for himself, however hateful life was, it was hateful in a home and not in the gutter. Many Americans hated their homes. The number of homeless in America couldn't touch the number of Americans who had homes and families and hated the whole thing.

  Philip Roth

  Home, Numbers, America

  Philip Roth (1995). “Sabbath's Theater”, p.109, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• And I sort of frowned about that, thinking. 'You felt ill this afternoon,' he said, 'because you're getting better. When we're healthy we respond to the presence of the hateful with fear and nausea. You're becoming healthy, that's all.

  Anthony Burgess

  Thinking, Healthy, Get Better

  Anthony Burgess (2011). “A Clockwork Orange”, p.117, Penguin UK

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• If you start by hating one or two people, you won't be able to stop. Pretty soon you'll hate a hundred people." "A zillion?" "Even a zillion. A little hatred goes a long, long way. It grows and grows. And it's hungry." "Like Cimmamum?" "Even hungrier. You keep feeding it more and more people, and the more it gets, the more it wants. It's never satisfied. And pretty soon it squeezes all the love out of your heart"--I pointed to her heart; she looked down at her chest--"and all you'll have left is a hateful heart.

  Jerry Spinelli

  Hate, Heart, Two

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• Dill said striking a match under a turtle was hateful. “How do you know a match don't hurt him?” “Turtles can't feel, stupid,” said Jem. “Where you ever a turtle, huh?

  Harper Lee

  Hurt, Stupid, Turtles

  Harper Lee (2015). “Harper Lee Collection E-book Bundle: To Kill a Mockingbird + Go Set a Watchman”, p.21, HarperCollins

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• First, I think more Americans need to declare their independence from partisan politics on both sides. The more that Americans declare their independence, the more the parties will have to compete for their votes using reason rather than the hateful appeals.

  John Avlon

  Party, Thinking, Independence

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• Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.

  Max Beerbohm

  Hatred, Objects

  Max Beerbohm (2010). “Zuleika Dobson: An Oxford Love Story”, p.201, The Floating Press

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• There have been some very extreme hecklers in audiences whose bile was so hateful and so meant that it would be a bit frightening to think that all I'm doing is jokes and yet someone hates me that much.

  Jo Brand

  Hate, Thinking, Would Be

  "Jo Brand: fat jokes matter". Interview with Emine Saner, www.theguardian.com. September 21, 2011.

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