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I think throughout the 20th century, for some reason, serious writers increasingly had contempt for the average reader. You can really see this in the letters of such people as Joyce and Virginia Woolf. Michel Faber
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I can't hold too much contempt for him, because naturally he would be disappointed. Danny Green
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Hatred comes from the heart; contempt from the head; and neither feeling is quite within our control Arthur Schopenhauer
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I grew up to have my father's looks- my father's speech patterns-my father's posture- my father's opinions and my mother's contempt for my father Jules Feiffer
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If they haven't gone back to work by Thursday, then we're going to have a very significant penalty phase to deal with. The longer the strike goes, obviously the more serious the contempt is. Michael Hancock
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Nabokov, who I loved more than any other writer when I was young, had such contempt for dialogue. When I was younger, I never wrote a word of dialogue because of him. I thought it was a childish part of a novel. Zadie Smith
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My worst boss was a departmental chair who never learned to appreciate new developments in the field. He had contempt for students and younger researchers, and he saw the job of running the department as a nuisance. Steven Pinker
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When the good of science or economic interests prevail over the good of the person, and ultimately of whole societies, environmental destruction is a sign of a real contempt for man. Pope John
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Contempt is not a thing to be despised. Edmund Burke
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We are showing that Englishmen can still die with a bold spirit, fighting it out to the end. Robert Falcon Scott
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Window-breaking, when Englishmen do it, is regarded as honest expression of political opinion. Window-breaking, when Englishwomen do it, is treated as a crime. Emmeline Pankhurst
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I'm an Englishman. What more can I say? Alan Sugar
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In England, the sovereignty resides exclusively in the person or individual who is king. All Englishmen are his subjects. And the highest peer in the realm... has no share in the sovereignty.
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Englishmen have always loved Moliere. Lytton Strachey
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When a tiger changes his nature, Englishmen will change theirs. Mahatma Gandhi