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• You know," Clary said, "most psychologists agree that hostility is really just sublimated sexual attraction.

  Cassandra Clare

  Psychologist, Said, Fray

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.317, Simon and Schuster

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• You're punishing him over and over for things that are out of his control. Now, I'm not saying you shouldn't have a fully loaded weapon next to you round the clock. But I think it's time you flipped this little scenario in your head. If you'd been taken by the Capitol, and hijacked, and then tried to kill Peeta, is this the way he would be treating you?" demands Haymitch. I fall silent. It isn't. It isn't how he would be treating me at all. He would be trying to get me back at any cost. Not shutting me out, abandoning me, greeting me with hostility at every turn.

  Suzanne Collins

  Fall, Taken, Thinking

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• You know, I used to think it was awful that life was so unfair. Then I thought, wouldn't it be much worse if life were fair, and all the terrible things that happen to us come because we actually deserve them? So, now I take great comfort in the general hostility and unfairness of the universe.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Life, Thinking, Awful

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• Sanchez looked at me and we locked eyes a second too long. There was nothing I could do about it. The signal went out. A moment of clear, silent hostility passed between us as hotly charged and unintentional as a thousand-volt arc through a squirrel.

  Rick Riordan

  Eye, Squirrels, Long

  Rick Riordan (2000). “The Last King of Texas”, Bantam

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• When a child hits a child, we call it aggression. When a child hits an adult, we call it hostility. When an adult hits an adult, we call it assault. When an adult hits a child, we call it discipline.

  Haim Ginott

  Children, Parenting, Discipline

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• If a writer doesn't generate hostility, he is dead.

  V. S. Naipaul

  Ifs

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• There was no hostility at the court when I arrived.

  Sandra Day O'Connor

  Court

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• Though the details differ across the world, no known culture lacks some version of the time-consuming, wealth consuming, hostility provoking rituals, the anti-factual, counter-productive fantasies of religion.

  Richard Dawkins

  World, Details, Culture

  Richard Dawkins (2008). “The God Delusion”, p.194, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I want to think quietly, calmly, spaciously, never to be interrupted, never to have to rise from my chair, to slip easily from one thing to another, without any sense of hostility, or obstacle. I want to sink deeper and deeper, away from the surface, with its hard separate facts.

  Virginia Woolf

  Thinking, Facts, Want

  Virginia Woolf, David Bradshaw (2001). “The Mark on the Wall and Other Short Fiction”, p.5, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Honest pioneer work in the field of science has always been, and will continue to be, life's pilot. On all sides, life is surrounded by hostility. This puts us under an obligation.

  Wilhelm Reich

  Two Sides, Pioneers, Pilots

  Wilhelm Reich (1973). “The Discovery of the Orgone”

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• The biblical texts that we Christians have used for centuries to justify our hostility toward the Jews need to be banished forever from the sacred writings of the Christian church.

  John Shelby Spong

  Christian, Writing, Biblical

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• I often think I can see it in myself and in other young writers, this desperate desire to please coupled with a kind of hostility to the reader.

  David Foster Wallace

  Thinking, Desire, Young Writers

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• There's hostility to lying, and there should be.

  Bob Woodward

  Lying, Literature, Should

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• If we could read the past histories of all our enemies we would disregard all hostility for them.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Past, Enemy, Disregard

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• Hostility to art is also hostility to the new, to the unforeseen.

  Robert Bresson

  Art, Art Is, Unforeseen

  Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.61, New York Review of Books

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• Pity can purge us of hostility and arouse feelings of identification with the characters, but it can also be a consoling reassurance which leads us to believe that we have understood, and that, in pitying, we have even done something to right a wrong.

  Richard Wright

  Believe, Character, Feelings

  Richard Wright (1957). “Native Son”, p.393, McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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• To many women mistake a man's hostility for wit and his silence for depth.

  Sue Grafton

  Mistake, Men, Silence

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• Well, I'd certainly hate to interrupt your pleasant night stroll with my sudden death." He blinked. "There is a fine line between sarcasm and outright hostility, and you seem to have crossed it. What's up?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hate, Sarcasm, Night

  Cassandra Clare (2008). “City of Bones”, p.216, Simon and Schuster

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• Writing is one of the few professions in which you can psychoanalyse yourself, get rid of hostilities and frustrations in public, and get paid for it.

  Octavia Butler

  Writing, Frustration, Profession

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• The atheist, agnostic, or secularist ... should guard against the encroachment of religion in areas where it has no place, and in particular the control of education by religious authority. The attempts to ban the teaching of evolution or other scientific theories -- a feeble echo of medieval church tyranny and hostility to learning, but an echo nonetheless are serious threats to freedom of inquiry and should be vigorously combated.

  S. T. Joshi

  Religious, Atheist, Teaching

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• The feminists had destroyed the old image of woman, but they could not erase the hostility, the prejudice, the discrimination that still remained.

  Betty Friedan

  Feminist, Prejudice, Discrimination

  Betty Friedan (2006). “Life So Far: A Memoir”, p.120, Simon and Schuster

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• Every time you see a black romance it's over-the-top. There always has to be extreme hostility between the sexes. He has to cheat. She has to show him how independently strong she is, not just as a woman but as a black woman.

  Bernie Mac

  Strong, Sex, Romance

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is an absolutely fundamental hostility on the part of totalitarian regimes toward religion.

  Jeane Kirkpatrick

  Fundamentals, Regimes, Totalitarian Regimes

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• In defense of our persons and properties under actual violation, we took up arms. When that violence shall be removed, when hostilities shall cease on the part of the aggressors, hostilities shall cease on our part also.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Defense, Arms, Violence

  Thomas Jefferson (1950). “The papers of Thomas Jefferson”

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• The people you see in Nigeria today have always lived as neighbors in the same space for as long as we can remember. So it's a matter of settling down, lowering the rhetoric, the level of hostility in the rhetoric is too high.

  Chinua Achebe

  Space, Long, People

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