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• Writing prejudicial, off-putting reviews is a precise exercise in applied black magic. The reviewer can draw free-floating disagreeable associations to a book by implying that the book is completely unimportant without saying exactly why, and carefully avoiding any clear images that could capture the reader's full attention.

  William S. Burroughs

  Book, Writing, Exercise

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

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• People who have a creative side and do not live it out are most disagreeable clients. They make a mountain out of a molehill, fuss about unnecessary things, are too passionately in love with somebody who is not worth so much attention, and so on. There is a kind of floating charge of energy in them which is not attached to its right object and therefore tends to apply exaggerated dynamism to the wrong situation.

  Marie-Louise von Franz

  Creativity, People, Creative

  Marie-Louise von Franz (2017). “Shadow and Evil in Fairy Tales: Revised Edition”, p.232, Shambhala Publications

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• [On Thomas Babington Macaulay:] He was a most disagreeable companion to my fancy ... His conversation was a procession of one.

  Florence Nightingale

  Fancy, Conversation, Companion

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• Old age is a time of humiliations, the most disagreeable of which, for me, is that I cannot work long at sustained high pressure with no leaks in concentration.

  Igor Stravinsky

  Long, Age, Pressure

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• I have always regarded divorce as essentially disagreeable, like castor oil, but necessary.

  Mary Roberts Rinehart

  Divorce, Oil

  Mary Roberts Rinehart (2008). “When A Man Marries (EasyRead Super Large 18pt Edition)”, p.19, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• Nor need it cause surprise that things disagreeable to the good man should seem pleasant to some men; for mankind is liable to many corruptions and diseases, and the things in question are not really pleasant, but only pleasant to these particular persons, who are in a condition to think them so.

  Aristotle

  Men, Thinking, Good Man

  Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.271, Wordsworth Editions

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• Scarce any man becomes eminently disagreeable but by a departure from his real character, and an attempt at something for which nature or education has left him unqualified.

  Samuel Johnson

  Real, Character, Men

  Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.305

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• Politeness is fictitious benevolence. Depend upon it, the want of it never fails to produce something disagreeable to one or other.

  Samuel Johnson

  Want, Failing, Produce

  James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (2006). “A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland and the Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides”, p.200, Penguin UK

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• What has a man's face to do with his character? Can a man of good character help having a disagreeable face?

  Ann Radcliffe

  Beauty, Character, Men

  Ann Radcliffe (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ann Radcliffe (Illustrated)”, p.681, Delphi Classics

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• Had we a privilege of calling up by the power of memory only such passages as were pleasing, unmixed with such as were disagreeable, we might then excite at pleasure an ideal happiness, perhaps more poignant than actual sensation.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Memories, Might, Privilege

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• Can any thing, my good Sir, be more painful to a friendly mind than a necessity of communicating disagreeable intelligence? Indeed, it is sometimes difficult to determine, whether the relater or the receiver of evil tidings is most to be pitied.

  Fanny Burney

  Evil, Mind, Friendly

  Frances Burney, Fanny Burney (2015). “Complete Works of Frances Burney (Delphi Classics)”, p.24, Delphi Classics

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• One only says it is one's duty when one has something disagreeable to do.

  Margaret Oliphant

  Duty

  Margaret Oliphant (2015). “Delphi Works of Margaret Oliphant with Complete Stories of the Seen and Unseen”, p.1514, Delphi Classics

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• It is resignation and contentment that are best calculated to lead us safely through life. Whoever has not sufficient power to endure privations, and even suffering, can never feel that he is armor proof against painful emotions,--nay, he must attribute to himself, or at least to the morbid sensitiveness of his nature, every disagreeable feeling he may suffer.

  Wilhelm von Humboldt

  Feelings, Suffering, Contentment

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• A boy may be as disagreeable as he pleases, but when a girl refuses to crap sunshine on command, the world mutters darkly about her moods.

  Scott Lynch

  Girl, Sunshine, Boys

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1817, Del Rey

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• There are a lot of true culturalists who respect where they're from, but you have some who are just all about the benjamins, like, "I wanna get my money, I wanna get mine, you get yours, more power to you," and they don't care. That deals with the whole thing of life, whether you're agreeable or disagreeable, the yin and the yang, the evil versus good. That's how it is in the music industry. There are people who care for the whole culture and what they're doing, and have love for it, and are not into just making money.

  Afrika Bambaataa

  People, Evil, Culture

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Dark and sour humours, especially those which have a spice of malevolence in them, are vastly disagreeable. Such men have no music in their souls.

  Abigail Adams

  Dark, Men, Soul

  Abigail Adams, John Adams (1840). “Letters of Mrs. Adams: The Wife of John Adams”, p.214

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• When a man is not disposed to hear music, there is not a more disagreeable sound in harmony than that of the violin.

  Richard Steele

  Music, Men, Sound

  Joseph Addison, Sir Richard Steele, Alexander Chalmers (1822). “The Tatler”, p.376

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• The distribution of patronage of the Government is by far the most disagreeable duty of the President.

  James Buchanan

  Government, President, Patronage

  James Buchanan (2000). “Mr. Buchanan's Administration: On the Eve of the Rebellion”, p.252, Digital Scanning Inc

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• Rather than becoming more relaxed, you start pulling down the shades and locking the door. When you do go out, you find the experience more and more unsettling and disagreeable. You become touchier, more fearful, more irritable than ever. The more you try to get it your way, the less you feel at home.

  Pema Chodron

  Peace, Home, Doors

  Pema Chodron (2001). “Start Where You Are: A Guide to Compassionate Living”, p.65, Shambhala Publications

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• November is the most disagreeable month in the whole year," said Margaret, standing at the window one dull afternoon, looking out at the frostbitten garden. "That's the reason I was born in it," observed Jo pensively, quite unconscious of the blot on her nose.

  Louisa May Alcott

  Garden, Years, Noses

  Louisa May Alcott (2012). “Little Women and Little Men”, p.248, Graphic Arts Books

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• That which prevents disagreeable flies from feeding on your repast, was once the proud tail of a splendid bird.

  Martial

  Bird, Tails, Proud

  Martial, Henry George Bohn (1914). “The Epigrams of Martial: Translated Into English Prose. Each Accompanied by One Or More Verse Translations, from the Works of English Poets, and Various Other Sources”

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• We often value the exterior and superficial aspect of things more than their inner reality. Bad manners taint everything even justice and reason. The 'how' of things matters most, and even the most disagreeable matters can be sweetened and gilded over with the proper appearance. Such is the bias and the weakness of the human mind.

  Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable

  Reality, Justice, Mind

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• The male has been persuaded to assume a certain onerous and disagreeable role with the promise of rewards -- material and psychological. Women may in the first place even have put it into his head. BE A MAN! may have been, metaphorically, what Eve uttered at the critical moment in the garden of Eden.

  Wyndham Lewis

  Men, Garden, Eden

  Wyndham Lewis (1989). “The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work”, Andre Deutsch Limited

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• The disagreeable reality for those who believe in human rights is that there are some occasions-and Iraq may be one of them-when war is the only real remedy for regimes that live by terror.

  Michael Ignatieff

  Real, War, Believe

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• Creative people are often found either disagreeable or intimidating by mediocrities.

  Criss Jami

  People, Creative, Mediocrity

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.122, Criss Jami

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