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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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"I hate that which we have decided to call realism, even though I have been made one of its high priests."

"We do not hate as long as we still attach a lesser value, but only when we attach an equal or a greater value."

"It was the hate of the used and tormented, who are the children of the used and tormented, and whose own children will be used and tormented."

"I hate the word 'sneering', I can't help the way my face looks."

"To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking."

"I never storyboard. I hate it. I don't understand why so many directors want to make comic strips of their films."

"Life sometimes confuses us by making us discover in someone we hate a quality or qualities we love."
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"Anybody in the next centuries wanting to know what it was like to be a poet in the middle of the 20th century should read Kaddish."

"I've had a tough time with Pynchon. I liked him very much when I first read him. I liked him less with each book. He got denser and more complex in a way that didn't really pay off."

"The reason Saul Bellow doesn't talk to me anymore is because he knows his new novels are not worth reading."

"Hemingway seems to be in a funny position. People nowadays can't identify with him closely as a member of their own generation, and he isn't yet historical."

"I've been writing about James Fenimore Cooper. He was not a writer. Here was a man who was 30 years old and had never put anything more than his signature on paper."

"I love it now that a large minority of people who are handicapped prefer to call themselves crippled. This is all part of the game, like queer theory."

"The novel is the first art form that is an honest-to-god commodity. That's what makes it different from both high art and folk art."

"I like that people who are not experts can not only understand but get engaged by my work. I like that Joe Paterno can read me. Bill Bradley."

"What I really dream of is that somebody would blow everything I've done out of the water in a beautiful way, which would clear the way for something better to come along."
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