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• I hate, loathe and despise schools.School is bad for you if you have any talent. You should be cultivating that talent in your own particular way.

  Maurice Sendak

  Hate, School, Way

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• I loathe all this blind rushing pell-mell into a struggle arranged by the mighty minority and paid for with the lives of young men who are drugged on trumped-up ideals.

  Fannie Hurst

  War, Struggle, Men

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• Don't you loathe it when doctors use the word 'we' when it applies only and solely to yourself?

  Carson McCullers

  Doctors, Use

  Carson McCullers (1998). “Clock Without Hands”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered.

  Jane Porter

  Apples, Fruition, Sticks

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• I hate, loathe, and despise Christmas. It's a time when single people have to take cover or get out of town.

  Kristin Hunter

  Christmas, Hate, People

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• He who loathes war, and will do everything in his power to avert it, but who will, in the last extremity, encounter its perils, from love of country and of home--who is willing to sacrifice himself and all that is dear to him in life, to promote the well-being of his fellow-man, will ever receive a worthy homage.

  John Stevens Cabot Abbott

  Country, War, Home

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• Every actor has to love and loathe the character he plays.

  Ian McShane

  Character, Play, Actors

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• Some people hate the sight of me as soon as they see me on television. They loathe the look of me, and I accept that from the days of variety. I would walk on and some people would open a newspaper and think, 'He's first on, so he can't be any good.' I accept that.

  Bruce Forsyth

  Hate, Thinking, Sight

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• Boy, I loathe Persian luxury.

  Horace

  Boys, Luxury, Persian

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• Ordinary' is a word I loathe. It has a patronizing air. I have come across ordinary people who have done extraordinary things.

  Studs Terkel

  Air, People, Ordinary

  Studs Terkel, Sydney Lewis (2010). “Touch and Go: A Memoir (Large Print 16pt)”, p.244, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• I abhor, too, the roaming lover, nor do I drink from every well; I loathe all things in common

  Callimachus

  Roaming, Lovers, Common

  Epigram 28 in R. Pfeiffer (ed.) 'Callimachus' (1949-53)

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• I do loathe explanations.

  James M. Barrie

  Explanation

  "My Lady Nicotine". Book by James Matthew Barrie. Chapter 16, 1890.

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• I loathe conflict, and I loathe not getting along well with people, so I always try very hard to be on the best terms with the people I work with.

  Joan Collins

  People, Trying, Conflict

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• You know, many writers really don't like to write. I think this the chief complaint of so many. They hate to write; they do it under the compulsion that makes any artist the victim he is, but they loathe the process of sitting down trying to turn thoughts into reasonable sentences.

  Harper Lee

  Hate, Writing, Artist

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• I loathe the idea of going onstage in a T-shirt and jeans.

  Martin Gore

  Jeans, Ideas, T Shirt

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• I hate the countrie's dirt and manners, yet I love the silence; I embrace the wit; A courtship, flowing here in full tide. But loathe the expense, the vanity and pride. No place each way is happy.

  William Habington

  Country, Hate, Pride

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• There is no tyranny in the world more hateful than that of ideas. Ideas bring ideophobia, and the consequence is that people begin to persecute their neighbors in the name of ideas. I loathe and detest all labels, and the only label that I could now tolerate would be that of ideoclast or idea breaker.

  Miguel de Unamuno

  Names, Ideas, People

  Miguel de Unamuno (2015). “Selected Works of Miguel de Unamuno, Volume 3: Our Lord Don Quixote”, p.16, Princeton University Press

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• If you were God’s children you would loathe the very thought of the world’s evil joys, and your question would not be, “How far may we be like the world?” but your one cry would be, “How far can we get away from the world? How much can we come out from it?

  Charles Spurgeon

  Children, Evil, Joy

  Spurgeon, Charles (2015). “The Complete Works of C. H. Spurgeon, Volume 32: Sermons 1877-1937”, p.420, Delmarva Publications, Inc.

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• Love is a virtue; it grows stronger and purer and less selfish by applying it to what it loathes; but theft is a vice involving the slave-idea that one's neighbor is superior to oneself.

  Aleister Crowley

  Selfish, Love Is, Ideas

  Aleister Crowley (1991). “Magick: In Theory and Practice”, Book Sales

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• Golf asks something of a man. It makes one loathe mediocrity. It seems to say, "If you are going to keep company with me, don't embarrass me.

  Gary Player

  Golf, Men, Mediocrity

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• I loathe the urchin's cruelty to the cat, but I will not loathe the urchin. I loathe Hitler's mass-torturing, but not Hitler; and the money-man's heartlessness, but not the man. I love the swallow's flight, and I love the swallow; the urchin's gleam of tenderness, and the urchin.

  Olaf Stapledon

  Cat, Men, Gleam

  "An Olaf Stapledon Reader" by by Olaf Stapledon, Syracuse University Press, New York, (pp. 266-272), 1997.

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• Nature does not loathe virtue: it is unaware of its existence.

  Francoise Mallet-Joris

  Perspective, Doe, Virtue

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• I loathe hecklers. I haven't got a good syllable to say. When you come out of the club circuit and into the concert hall, they should be gone. There's an element of manners that should tell you that the ticket is dear and it's a different venue.

  Billy Connolly

  Tickets, Different, Hecklers

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• But, indeed, words are very rascals, since bonds [vows] disgraced them." Viola: "Thy reason, man?" Feste: "Troth [Truthfully], sir, I can yield you none without words, and words are grown so false, I am loathe to prove reason with them.

  William Shakespeare

  Men, Yield, Reason

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• I worship you, but I loathe marriage. I hate its smugness, its safety, its compromise and the thought of you interfering with my work, hindering me; what would you answer?

  Virginia Woolf

  Hate, Worship You, Safety

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.218, Delphi Classics

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