"I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me."

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"I don't have a warm personal enemy left. They've all died off. I miss them terribly because they helped define me."

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"You don't want to dwell on your enemies, you know. I basically feel so superior to my critics for the simple reason that they haven't done what I do. Most book reviewers haven't written 11 novels. Many of them haven't written one."

John Irving, American Novelist

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"Beware of no man more than of yourself; we carry our worst enemies within us."

Charles Spurgeon, British Clergyman

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"If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons."

C. S. Lewis, British Author

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"'Tis best to weigh the enemy more mighty than he seems."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Enemies' gifts are no gifts and do no good."

Sophocles, Greek Poet

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"The great enemy of clear language is insincerity. When there is a gap between one's real and one's declared aims, one turns, as it were, instinctively to long words and exhausted idioms, like a cuttlefish squirting out ink."

George Orwell, British Author

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"This stuff on enemy combatants, the Bush Administration has fought like a tiger to avoid having to produce any evidence to a judge to show why somebody is locked up in perpetuity. Another example of that is the torture scandal."

James Bovard, American Author

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"The greatest enemy of any one of our truths may be the rest of our truths."

William James, American Philosopher

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"I guess there is nothing that will get your mind off everything like golf. I have never been depressed enough to take up the game, but they say you get so sore at yourself you forget to hate your enemies."

Will Rogers, American Actor

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"Getting to the pint where the other is not the enemy is a big leap."

Stanley Crouch, American Critic

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