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I think the opening words of my last book were 'I loathe myself'.
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Opening with the line, "I loathed myself again," Confessions of a Conjuror expands into a merciless prosecution of the author's shortcomings – "my own excruciating personality as a young magician," the occasional "revolting burst of intellectual smugness", and his "hateful" failure to sparkle socially in the presence of larger personalities.
And the more I loathed myself, the more I felt like I had to punish myself for eating that extra slice of pizza or serving of pasta.
This distinction is embodied in Larry David's response to an accusation of being a self-hating Jew in Curb Your Enthusiasm: "Hey, I may loathe myself, but it has nothing to do with the fact that I'm Jewish".
I absolutely loathe myself.
I'd think to myself: 'It's not doing any harm.' But then I started to loathe myself for giving in and wasting so much time on it".
I used to loathe myself in my teens.
They made it okay to loathe myself because of the way that I looked and to spend hours trying to improve every last inch of body so that a man would desire me.
As a disabled person myself, I loathe the idea that people are fraudulently claiming benefits to which they are not entitled.
I don't call myself "vegetarian" – I loathe its cultish connotations, how the word is so open to misinterpretation and conjures up the usual stereotypes: hippy-dippy, flaky, preachy types with their whinging and food hang-ups.
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