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Brad Williams Comedian
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"I hate that when people are like, "Well, all dwarves know each other, right?" And you want to get mad, but you can't because we do."

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Alfred Hitchcock Director, Producer, Screenwriter
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"Seeing a murder on television can help us unload the feelings of hate themselves. If you do not have feelings of hatred, may be obtained in the advertising interval."

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Augusten Burroughs Author, Memoirist
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"I told myself, 'All I want is a normal life'. But was that true? I wasn't so sure. Because there was a part of me that enjoyed hating school, and the drama of not going, the potential consequences whatever they were. I was intrigued by the unknown. I was even slightly thrilled that my mother was such a mess. Had I become addicted to crisis? I traced my finger along the windowsill. 'Want something normal, want something normal, want something normal', I told myself."

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W. Somerset Maugham Novelist, Playwright
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"Unconsciously, perhaps, we treasure the power we have over people by their regard for our opinion of them, and we hate those upon whom we have no such influence."

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Ramana Maharshi Spiritual Teacher
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"The enemy hates the ego, which the seeker wants to kill; thus, like the anvil to the goldsmith, he is actually a friend."

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Terence McKenna Ethnobotanist, Philosopher, Writer
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"I think it's the sheer power of the hallucinogens that puts people off. You either love them or you hate them, and that's because they dissolve world views. And if you like the experience of having your entire ontological structure disappear out from under you, if you think that's a thrill, you'll probably love psychedelics."

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Thomas Merton Writer, Monk
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"As long as we are on earth, the love that unites us will bring us suffering by our very contact with one another, because this love is the resetting of a body of broken bones. Even saints cannot live with saints on this earth without some anguish. There are two things which men can do about the pain of disunion with other men. They can love or they can hate."

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Robert Smith Musician
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"Irony is the recourse of the weak-minded wimp, I think. I hate bands that deliver their songs with knowing smiles on their faces, so that if those songs fall flat they can say 'Ah well, we never really meant it anyway.' It's so dishonest."

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else."

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J. D. Salinger Novelist, Short Story Writer
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"I was trying to feel some kind of good-bye. I mean I’ve left schools and places I didn’t even know I was leaving them. I hate that. I don’t care if it’s a sad good-bye or a bad good-bye, but when I leave a place I like to know I’m leaving it. If you don’t you feel even worse."

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H. G. Wells Writer
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"Countless people...will hate the New World Order...and will die protesting against it...we have to bear in mind the distress of a generation or so of malcontents."

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Laozi Philosopher
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"Loving, hating, having expectations: all these are attachments. Attachment prevents the growth of one's true being."

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