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- Nov 07, 2020
Like Quotes
Quotes on what people like and why.
These quotes explore liking something, or coming around to it later - one describes disliking Jane Austen before eventually appreciating her work, while another reflects on early interest in mathematics over computers. Related browsing includes Know Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't really like heroes who always behave heroically. That's not interesting to me.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always try to find a story in the margins of history, but I don't like to do too much that's improbable.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
Sport crosses party lines and ethnic lines. It occupies a greater realm, and it's all the more disappointing when sports figures turn out to be like everyone else.
- Living
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- Nov 07, 2020
Possibly because I earn my living as a writer of fiction and possibly because it's just the sensible thing to do, I like to pay attention to everything I come across, including things that evoke the uncanny or the mysterious.
- Trying
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
- Cake
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't ever try to sound like, 'it's a piece of cake. Be chaste 'til your married.' But you strive and battle. It's a battle.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
Just like those who are incurably ill, the aged know everything about their dying except exactly when.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
A Jew without Jews, without Judaism, without Zionism, without Jewishness, without a temple or an army or even a pistol, a Jew clearly without a home, just the object itself, like a glass or an apple.
- Department Stores
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't like department stores. I had a chain of department stores back in 1994 which was Lewis's and Owen Owen, only for a short time, and I found department stores personally difficult.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I could spend my life having meetings, a meeting to have another meeting, a hundred meetings to have another thousand meetings. It's not what I'm about. I don't want to have to get in a queue; that's not how I like to live.
- Nov 07, 2020
When I've had a talk with someone, I like them to leave unconfused. No need for contention.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
Biography, like big game hunting, is one of the recognized forms of sport, and it is as unfair as only sport can be.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020