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“I don't hate anyone. I dislike. But my dislike is the equivalent of anyone else's hate.”

Hate Literature Dislike Don't Hate

Author:Elsa Maxwell

“A question I’ve thought about a great deal is why it is so much easier to write about the things we dislike/hate/acknowledge to be flawed than the things we love.”

Writing Hate Deals Easier Acknowledge Dislike Flawed

Book:The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel

Source: The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry: A Novel

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

Hate Steps Hatred Active Envy Dislike Passive

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“How apt nature is, even in those who profess an eminence in holiness, to raise and maintain animosities against those whose calling or person they pretend to find cause to dislike!”

Persons Hate Causes Calling Raises Holiness Dislike Animosity Eminence

Book:The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

Source: The Works of Joseph Hall: Devotional works; Miscellaneous theology

“These self-appointed deacons in the Church of Latter-Day American Literature seem to regard generosity (of words) with suspicion, texture with dislike, and any broad literary stroke with outright hate. The result is a strange and arid literary climate where a meaningless little fingernail paring like Nicholson Baker's Vox becomes an object of fascinated debate and dissection, and a truly ambitious American novel like Matthew's Heart of the Country is all but ignored.”

“Reasons for not keeping a notebook: 1) the ambiguity of the reader--it is never quite oneself. 2) I usually hate the sight of my handwriting--it lives too much and I dislike its life--I mean by "lives," of course, betrays too much!”

Life Mean Reason Hate Courses Too Much Reader Sight Oneself Dislike Betray Never Quit Diaries Ambiguity Notebook Handwriting

Author:Lionel Trilling

“This week the White House proposed fingerprinting and photographing foreign visitors so they can do background checks. Officials in Saudi Arabia said this will only increase anti-American feelings in the Mideast. Is that possible? Gee, you hate to have people dislike us for no reason. Things were going so well.”

“In our house we don't use words like "despise" and 'hate,' we say "strongly dislike."”

Use Hate House Dislike Despise

Author:Madonna Ciccone

“Love sinners, but hate their deeds, and do not disdain sinners for their failings, so that you yourself do not fall into the temptation in which they abide... Do not be angry at anyone and do not hate anyone, neither for their faith, nor for their shameful deeds... Do not foster hatred for the sinner, for we are all guilty... Hate his sins, and pray for him, so that you may be made like unto Christ, who had no dislike for sinners, but prayed for them.”

Inspirational May Made Christian Hate Fall Christ Religious Sin Failing Praying Hatred Angry Deeds Temptation Guilty Sinner Orthodox Dislike Shameful Disdain

Author:Isaac of Nineveh

“Mr. [John] Barrymore's smile was the smile of an actor who hates actors, and who knows that he is going to kill two or three before the play is over. I am not an actor-killer, but I like my Hamlets to dislike actors, if you know what I mean, and I think you don't.”

Ifs Thinking Knows Mean Two Play Hate Three Actors Dislike Killers

Author:John Barrymore

“People either hate me or dislike me - but I realized that people aren't against you, they are for themselves. We're all prejudiced in favor of ourselves.”

People Hate Favors I Realized Dislike Hate Me Dislike Me

Author:Sebastian Horsley