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Sad people dislike the happy, and the happy the sad; the quick thinking the sedate, and the careless the busy and industrious.
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Among those who dislike oppression are many who like to oppress.
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He was an embittered atheist (the sort of atheist who does not so much disbelieve in God as personally dislike Him).
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The great majority of us are required to live a life of constant duplicity. Your health is bound to be affected if, day after day, you say the opposite of what you feel, if you grovel before what you dislike, and rejoice at what brings you nothing but misfortune. Our nervous system isn't just a fiction, it's a part of our physical body, and our soul exists in space, and is inside us, like the teeth in our mouth. It can't be forever violated with impunity.
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But what you realise after you've been in the business for a while is that people develop opinions about you that don't have anything to do with your music, they like or dislike you for a million reasons, they like or dislike you for your last record.
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Commonplace people dislike tragedy because they dare not suffer and cannot exult.
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Creating characters is like throwing together ingredients for a recipe. I take characteristics I like and dislike in real people I know, or know of, and use them to embellish and define characters.
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Fame has also this great drawback, that if we pursue it we must direct our lives in such a way as to please the fancy of men, avoiding what they dislike and seeking what is pleasing to them.
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Hatred is active, and envy passive dislike; there is but one step from envy to hate.
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He has all the virtues I dislike and none of the vices I admire.
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How extraordinary people are, that they get themselves into such situations where they go on doing what they dislike doing, and have no need or obligation to do, simply because it seems to be expected.
The Middle Ground (2013) 41 -
I dislike arguments of any kind. They are always vulgar, and often convincing.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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I dislike literary jargon and never use it. Criticism has only one function and that is to help readers read and understand literature. It is not a science, it is an aid to art.
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I dislike modern memoirs. They are generally written by people who have either entirely lost their memories, or have never done anything worth remembering.
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I do not much dislike the matter, but the manner of his speech.
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I don't dislike babies, though I think very young ones rather disgusting.
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I equally dislike the favor of the public with the love of a woman - they are both a cloying treacle to the wings of independence.
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I have tried - not always successful - to remember this lesson: Even people I dislike have a piece of God. My task is to move the junk out of the way so that I can find it.
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