#loath

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The best reason for committing loathsome and detestable acts--and let's face it, I am considered something of an expert in this field--is purely for their own sake. Monetary gain is all very well, but it dilutes the taste of wickedness to a lower level that is obtainable by anyone with an overdeveloped sense of avarice. True and baseless evil is as rare as the purest good--and we all know how rare that is...


Jasper Fforde


#detestable #dilutes #evil #expert #good

It's not all bad. Heightened self-consciousness, apartness, an inability to join in, physical shame and self-loathing—they are not all bad. Those devils have been my angels. Without them I would never have disappeared into language, literature, the mind, laughter and all the mad intensities that made and unmade me.


Stephen Fry


#books #depression #insecurity #isolation #language

I mean to say, this is the book and I really loathe it and I can't imagine what a nice Jewish boy like me ever, how I ever got into this dreadful trade.


Al Alvarez


#boy #dreadful #ever #got #how

People out there must be told about the self-loathing that follows rape and how it's the greatest breakage in divine law to mutilate themselves, as I have done.


Tori Amos


#divine #done #follows #greatest #how

In hatred as in love, we grow like the thing we brood upon. What we loathe, we graft into our very soul.


Mary Renault


#grow #hatred #into #like #loathe

To all those who walk the path of human cooperation war must appear loathsome and inhuman.


Alfred Adler


#cooperation #human #inhuman #loathsome #must

My capacity as a monk was to passionately believe utter nonsense, and when you're an actor you have to do the same thing. Also, Christianity used to have a lot to do with self-loathing and an acceptance of criticism and things like that which is terribly important for actors.


Tom Baker


#actor #also #believe #capacity #christianity

I absolutely loathe luxury. It is the one thing I cannot stand.


Brigitte Bardot


#cannot #i #loathe #luxury #one thing

Fun I love, but too much fun is of all things the most loathsome. Mirth is better than fun, and happiness is better than mirth.


William Blake


#better #fun #happiness #i #i love

I understand the self-loathing and the resentment, and the discipline that it takes to sit down in front of a typewriter or computer every single day, whether it's going well or not going well.


David Duchovny


#day #discipline #down #every #every single day