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"What man ever openly apologizes for slander? It is not so much a feeling of slander as it is that of a massive lie, a misdeed not only to the slandered but also to those manipulated in the process. He has made them all, every one, his enemies, thereupon he is so overwhelmed with guilt that he will deny it until his grave."
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"I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt."
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"Guilt is the price we pay willingly for doing what we are going to do anyway."
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"Consider guilt like a street sign that warns of rough roads ahead if you don't make a u-turn."
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"Feelings of guilt are the worst punishment. You are being punished by yourself."
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"Out, damned spot! out, I say!"
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"All this gave way to my first encounter with guilt, which is still something entirely inscrutable to me, as if aliens were sending transmissions from another planet, telling me there is a right and a wrong in the universe."
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"Ah! it is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace."
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"It's great to be recognized when I'm looking for a table at a crowded restaurant, but I still don't put it to best use. I'm such a lump. I won't cut the line. It's my Catholic guilt. I gotta get used to it."
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"With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here."
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".. I thought about him now and then, the things he had taught me about 'being human' and 'relating to others;, but it was always in the distance, as if from another life.. .. The people who might have told me were long forgotten, their phone numbers buried in some packed-away box in the attic."
Memory

"Time flies with you."
Romance

"Sometimes your kids will say the nastiest things, won't they, Rose? You want to ask,'Whose child is this?'"Rose chuckled."But usually, they're just in some kind of pain. They need to work it out."
Parenting

"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."
Family

"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."
Family

"Love like rain, can nourish from above, drenching couples with soaking joy. But sometimes, under the angry heat of life, love dries on the surface and must nourish from below, tending to its roots, keeping itself alive."
Relationship

"That's what heaven is. You get to make sense of your yesterdays."
Spiritual

"...But behind all your stories is always your mother's story, because hers is where yours begins."
Heritage

"The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it."
Aging

"This is the story of a man named Eddie and it starts at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It may seem strange to start a story with and ending, but all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time."
Story
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