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• I hate and detest Sicily in so far as I love it, and in so far as it does not respond to the kind of love I would like to have for it.

  Leonardo Sciascia

  Hate, Doe, Kind

  Leonardo Sciascia, Marcelle Padovani, James Marcus (1994). “Sicily as metaphor”, Marlboro Pr

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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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• We are always works in progress. You will hurt people you love, and help people you detest. This is called being a human and it happens to everyone.

  Adam Savage

  Hurt, People, Progress

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• I detest the endgame. A well-played game should be practically decided in the middlegame.

  Dawid Janowski

  Games, Chess, Should

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• I detest my fellow-beings and do not feel that I am their fellow at all

  Gustave Flaubert

  Speech, Feels, Fellows

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• I detest war; it ruins conversation

  Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle

  War, Political, Ruins

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• Every student of physics knows the axiom 'nature abhors a vacuum.' A little known corollary is that 'rowing coaches detest sending their crews in early.' Coaches will always find something to fill the end-of-practice vacuum.

  Brad Alan Lewis

  Practice, Vacuums, Littles

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• I detest converts almost as much as I do missionaries.

  H. L. Mencken

  Agnostic

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• Religion is a history of wickedness that has served to corrupt and brutalize humankind; and, for my part, I sincerely detest it as I detest everything that is cruel.

  Thomas Paine

  Wickedness, Age Of Reason, Sincerely

  Thomas Paine (1934). “The Works of Thomas Paine: His Epoch-making Writings in Religion, Government, Human Rights and International Relations”, New York : .H. Wise

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• Most of us are aware of and pretend to detest the barefaced instances of that hypocrisy by which men deceive others, but few of us are upon our guard or see that more fatal hypocrisy by which we deceive and over-reach our own hearts.

  Laurence Sterne

  Heart, Men, Hypocrisy

  Laurence Sterne (1853). “Works ...”, p.504

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• It seems to me that you are better off, as a writer and as an American, in a small town than you'd be in New York. I thoroughly detest New York, though I have to go there very often.... Have you ever noticed that no American writer of any consequence lives in Manhattan? Dreiser tried it (after many years in the Bronx), but finally moved to California.

  H. L. Mencken

  New York, Years, California

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• I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

  Richard Dawkins

  Christmas, White, Jingles

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• Detest it [a certain difficult mathematics problem] just as much as lewd intercourse; it can deprive you of all your leisure, your health, your rest, and the whole happiness of your life.

  Farkas Bolyai

  Math, Leisure, Problem

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• I have the hatred of apartheid in my bones; and most of all I detest the segregation or separation of Language and Literature. I do not care which of them you think White.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Thinking, White, Hatred

  Valedictory Address to the University of Oxford, reprinted in "The Monsters and the Critics" by Christopher Tolkien (2006), p. 238, June 5, 1959.

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• I crave intimacy to the same burning degree that I detest commitment.

  Amanda Palmer

  Commitment, Degrees, Burning

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• I detest that saying Everything happens for a reason; its nonsense.

  Gary Kemp

  Everything Happens For A Reason, Nonsense, Things Happen

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• The more I read, the more I was led to abhor and detest my enslavers.

  Frederick Douglass

  Frederick Douglass, William Lloyd Garrison (1849). “Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave”, p.40

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• I like commas. I detest semi-colons — I don’t think they belong in a story. And I gave up quotation marks long ago. I found I didn’t need them, they were fly-specks on the page.

  E. L. Doctorow

  Thinking, Long Ago, Needs

  "EL Doctorow: 'I don't have a style, but the books do'" by Sarah Crown, www.theguardian.com. January 22, 2010.

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• I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world of logic, because my results are so disgusting!

  Gregory Chaitin

  Hate, Science, Thinking

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• Complainers detest each other.

  Mason Cooley

  Complainers

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• There are some varieties of fiction that I never touch - mystery stories, for instance, which I abhor, and historical novels. I also detest the so-called "powerful" novel - full of commonplace obscenities and torrents of dialog.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Powerful, Historical Novels, Fiction

  Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov (1973). “Strong opinions”, McGraw-Hill Companies

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• I do detest everything which is not perfectly mutual.

  Lord Byron

  Mutual

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• Americans detest all lies except lies spoken in public or printed lies.

  E. W. Howe

  Lying, Deceit, Printed

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• I never lecture, not because I am shy or a bad speaker, but simply because I detest the sort of people who go to lectures and don't want to meet them.

  H. L. Mencken

  People, Shy, Literature

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• Trolls simply detest the very sight of dwarves (uncooked).

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Dwarves, Sight, Troll

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.20, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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