“The freedom of growing older is that one is no longer obliged to dislike someone simply because they dislike you.”
“To dislike a writer’s politics is one thing. To dislike him because he forces you to think is another, not necessarily incompatible with the first.”
“When you are behaving as if you loved someone, you will presently come to love him. If you injure someone you dislike, you will find yourself disliking him more. If you do him a good turn, you will find yourself disliking him less.”
“It is hard to dislike someone you know if that person is someone you value.”
“There are two ways to dislike poetry: One is to dislike it; the other is to read Pope.”
“Fred dislikes the idea going into the ministry partly because he doesn't like "feeling obligated to look serious", and he centers his doubts on "what people expect of a clergyman".”