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• Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Hate, Envy, Hatred

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• I prefer old books and find them more relevant. I dislike new books. It's like drinking wine that's not ready.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Book, Drinking, Wine

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• I don't have a schedule, but I can write for hours non-stop. If I'm drafting a book, I try and do a chapter a day. I dislike first drafts. Revision is a lot more fun, but it takes years.

  Sefi Atta

  Fun, Book, Writing

  Source: www.percontra.net

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• If there is any person to whom you feel a dislike, that is the person of whom you ought never to speak.

  Richard Cecil

  Evil, Speak, Feels

  Richard Cecil, Josiah Pratt (1857). “Remains and Miscellanies of the Rev. R. Cecil: To which is Prefixed, a View of His Character”, p.259

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• The truest test of independent judgment is being able to dislike someone who admires us, and to admire someone who dislikes us.

  Sydney J. Harris

  Independent, Dislike Someone, Independence

  Sydney J. Harris (1972). “For the Time Being”

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• No, seriously, I really don't have much ill-will toward anyone these days; I just ignore the people that I dislike

  Boyd Rice

  Ill Will, People, These Days

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• Hate is more lasting than dislike.

  Adolf Hitler

  Hate, Reality, Lasting Love

  "Mein Kampf". Book by Adolf Hitler, Volume I, Chapter 12 - The First Stage in the Development of the German National Socialist Labour Party, 1925.

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• I may neither choose who I would, nor refuse who I dislike; so is the will of a living daughter curbed by the will of a dead father.

  William Shakespeare

  Daughter, Father, May

  William Shakespeare (2016). “The New Oxford Shakespeare: Modern Critical Edition: The Complete Works”, p.1216, Oxford University Press

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• I dislike organized games, swimming pools, fashionable resorts, night clubs, music in restaurants, and political manifestoes; I enjoy driving from coast to coast, good food and drink, a few friends, dogs, the theatre, long walks, music and free conversation.

  James Hilton

  Dog, Swimming, Night

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• She was nothing more than a mere good-tempered, civil and obliging Young Woman; as such we could scarcely dislike her -- she was only an Object of Contempt

  Jane Austen

  Young, Contempt, Mere

  'Love and Freindship' (written 1790) 'Letter the 13th'

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• Everybody has a right to like or dislike anything or anyone. From a flower to a flavor to a book or a composition but it is very sad that in our country we actually fight over such things in an unseemly manner.

  Ravi Shankar

  Country, Flower, Book

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• It's a sin to hate, and for that reason alone, we must not hate the Normans... We can, however, thoroughly dislike them, Alice.

  Julie Garwood

  Hate, Sin, Reason

  Julie Garwood (2011). “The Prize”, p.44, Penguin

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• Love is a far more dangerous motive than dislike.

  Lady Violet

  Love Is, Dangerous, Motive

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• What do I dislike about death? Must be the hours.

  Woody Allen

  Hours, Universe

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• There's bad in everything. I dislike people misusing something that I love so much. It goes beyond the money. It goes beyond all of that and the glory. I love what I've done and I just can't stand to see what they're doing to it. But I've learned to live with it because that's what they've done. They've come in with the modern sounds. I call it modern pop. It's not country anymore.

  George Jones

  Country, People, Sound

  Source: www.cbn.com

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• I am not deceitful: if I were, I should say I loved you; but I declare I do not love you: I dislike you the worst of anybody in the world.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Lying, Love You, Deceit

  Charlotte Bronte, Sherri Browning Erwin (2010). “Jane Slayre: The Literary Classic with a Bloodsucking Twist”, p.19, Simon and Schuster

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• The best way to cleanse the heart and prepare for the stilling of the mind is to lead a normal, worldly life. Living in the midst of your day-to-day duties, responsibilities, likes, dislikes, etc., will help you. All these become the very means for the purification of your heart.

  Meher Baba

  Spiritual, Heart, Mean

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• There are two things that if you do them you will attain the good of this world and the hereafter; [They are] that you bear what you dislike if it is beloved to Allah and you leave what you like if it is disliked by Allah.

  Ibn Hazm

  Two, World, Bears

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• He scooped up my arm, swung me round. “Let go, Cecil,” I said. “I’ve a strange dislike of being forced.” “But Briony,” he said, “I’m so full of good spirits. I could walk to London, I think!” Why didn’t he?

  Franny Billingsley

  Letting Go, Thinking, Arms

  Franny Billingsley (2013). “Chime”, p.173, A&C Black

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• There was a huge difference between dislike and disregard.

  Julia Quinn

  Differences, Disregard, Huge

  Julia Quinn (2008). “Mister Cavendish, I presume”

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• I exist here, now. I'm not much interested in the future. Or, more precisely put, I do not believe in the future. To exaggerate a little, I have no faith that I will still exist tomorrow or the day after. What is more, I absolutely detest retrospection. That dislike is balances only by my desire to make my way back home as quickly as possible.

  Yohji Yamamoto

  Believe, Home, Balance

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• You've come to give me a piece of your mind. You know that phrase is really beautiful. The mind is the most powerful thing in the body. Whatever the mind believes, the body can achieve. So to give someone a piece of it... well thank you. Funny how people are always intent on giving it to the people they dislike when it really should be for the ones they love.

  Cecelia Ahern

  Beautiful, Powerful, Believe

  Cecelia Ahern (2006). “If You Could See Me Now”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• The world must be rather a rough place for clever people. Ordinary folk dislike them, and as for themselves, they hate each other most cordially.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Clever, Hate, People

  Jerome K. Jerome (2015). “Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.56, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one on the planet more merciless than a teenage girl once she's decided she dislikes you.

  Meg Cabot

  Girl, Teenage, Honey

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• It’s not that Etienne dislikes Tybalt. Etienne just dislikes chaos, and Tybalt causes almost as much commotion as I do. Sometimes more, when he really sets his mind to it, although my chaos is a little more destructive, if I do say so myself.

  Mira Grant

  Mind, Littles, Causes

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