"It troubles me that people speak about writing……" — Joyce Maynard

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• Nothing to me is more distasteful than that entire complacency and satisfaction which beam in the countenances of a new… — Charles Lamb
• There should be no distasteful tasks in one's life. If you just hate to do a thing, that hatred for… — Walter Russell
• With the greatest respect, we do not make the criminal law on the basis of opinion polls. A majority of… — Kenneth Clarke
• I also believe that academic freedom should protect the right of a professor or student to advocate Marxism, socialism, communism,… — Richard M. Nixon
• A genius is the man in whom you are least likely to find the power of attending to anything insipid… — William James
• Beware of men on airplanes. The minute a man reaches thirty thousand feet, he immediately becomes consumed by distasteful sexual… — Cynthia Heimel
• It isn't that life ashore is distasteful to me. But life at sea is better. — Francis Drake
• The Tempter masters the lazy and irresolute man who dwells on the attractive side of things, ungoverned in his senses,… — Gautama Buddha
• To take up the cross of Christ is no great action done once for all; it consists in the continual… — John Henry Newman
• Children who willingly participate in sexual acts have the right to make that decision as well, even if it's distasteful… — Mary Ruwart
• All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me. — Wilfred Owen
• Read not books alone, but men, and amongst them chiefly thyself. If thou find anything questionable there, use the commentary… — Francis Quarles

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