"There are some people who hate my guts. But that goes with the territory."
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"But that was just it - hate was exactly the right word. Hate is a force of attraction. Hate is just love with its back turned."
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"By the time you write the last page you have done half the book. The other half tends to get done in about five weeks; I do several drafts, very, very furiously rewriting. I literally do more or less nothing else and I stick with it and go through it and I begin to hate it."
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"How men envy and often hate these warm clocks, these wives, who know they will live forever. So what do we do? We men turn terribly mean, because we can't hold to the world or ourselves or anything. We are blind to continuity, all breaks down, falls, melts, stops, rots, or runs away. So, since we cannot shape Time, where does that leave men? Sleepless. Staring."
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"Grandfather's been dead all these years, but if you lifted my skull, by God, in the convolutions of my brain you'd find the big ridges of his thumbprint. He touched me. As I said earlier, he was a sculptor. 'I hate a Roman named Status Quo!' he said to me. 'Stuff your eyes with wonder,' he said, 'live as if you'd drop dead in ten seconds. See the world. It's more fantastic than any dream made or paid for in factories."
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"I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it."
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"I feel like the sexy clothes put a bar between you. It's like putting an alcohol drenched piece of wood between you and the person, and it's inviting them to be able to think and say the things that they hate about themselves."
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"I hate a man who skins the land."
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"I love N.Y.C.! I cant think of any individual that hates New York."
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"Even as in the blessed in heaven there will be most perfect charity, so in the damned there will be the most perfect hate. Wherefore as the saints will rejoice in all goods, so will the damned grieve for all goods. Consequently the sight of the happiness of the saints will give them very great pain."
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"Man is a hating rather than a loving animal."
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"There was too much hatred in the world; it was manifestly as dangerous as gunpowder, yet people let it lie about, in the way of ignition."
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"By nature man hates change; seldom will he quit his old home till it has actually fallen around his ears."
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"I hate stereotypes and I hate cliche."
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"You hate to see yourself do one draft of a script and then have somebody else come back in and change what you've done."
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"Indeed, it is a kind of quintessence of pride to hate and fear even the kind and legitimate approval of those who love us! I mean, to resent it as a humiliating patronage."
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"In the spiritual life there is no such thing as an indifference to love or hate."
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"How do you know what the world is like? Do you know the world is a foul sty? Do you know if you rip the fronts off houses you'd find swine? The world's a hell. What does it matter what happens in it?"
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"The second half [of Valley of Violence], you're with the guys that you should hate, but when you start seeing what their real lives are, you're like, "I do hate you, but at the same time, all right - maybe take it down a notch." The complications of all that are what's so interesting to me, those esoteric details - that's what people will hopefully take away from the movie."
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"I hate tricky facial hair. If your facial hair is too spotty in places, shave. Just forget about it."
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