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J.K. Rowling hated being a teenager.
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Vladimir Nabokov hated background music.
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Susan Sontag hated cats and Coca-Cola, among other things.
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J.R.R. Tolkien hated Hitler and the Nazi party with a fiery passion.
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Mark Twain hated Jane Austen.
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David Foster Wallace hated Bret Easton Ellis, and vice versa.
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Jonathan Franzen hates Twitter, the Internet, e-books, and smartphones.
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Toni Morrison hates conservatism, and religious attacks on women's reproductive rights in particular.
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Jeffrey Eugenides hates concerts.
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Jack Kerouac hated beatniks and thought they were a bunch of posers.