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"The correlative to loving our neighbors as ourselves is hating ourselves as we hate our neighbors."

"But I'm not crazy about the designers like Prada and Gucci. I hate going into designer stores."
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"If you hate a person, you hate something in him that is part of yourself. What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us."
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"People say hate is like a poison - but they're wrong. It's like a drug. You never forget your first hit, how it seduces you with its strength and power, and takes you completely by storm. It colors your world in light and meaning, until you wonder how you ever managed to get by without it. And then, eventually, you get to a point where you can't. It takes over your life, until hating becomes your reason for living."

"Hate does that. Burns off everything but itself, so whatever your grievance is, your face looks just like your enemy's."
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"If you take the contempt some Americans have for yuppies and multiply it by 10 you might come close to understanding their attitude towards the City, as they call it - London, the people of the south."

"I'm very aware when I'm speaking to the English of how flat my Mid-Atlantic American voice is."

"But at the same time I went down into the mines with working miners who are still young men, younger than I am, who are aware that their working life is coming to an end and they feel suddenly cut off."

"There is a huge antipathy in England between the north and the south, the working class and the owning class."

"Most people - and particularly people whose lives have nothing to do with books at all - are intrigued by the idea that somebody wants to listen to them and get it right."

"I've always been struck by how unsuspicious people are in general, if you tell them what you're about."

"I've got a book of poetry by the bed, one of these big collections that goes back to the Greeks and Romans."
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