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"I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt."
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"There is no such thing as collective guilt."
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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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"Hard though it may be to accept, remember that guilt is sometimes a friendly internal voice reminding you that you're messing up."
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"At the same time I know that it's not really their fault, at least not completely. I did my part too. I did it on a hundred different days and in a thousand different ways, and I know it. But this makes the anger worse, not better."
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"I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do."
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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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"Whether they knew of didn't know is not the main issue; the main issue is whether a man is innocent because he didn't know. (...) by beating himself on the chest and proclaiming, "My conscience is clear! I did not know! I was a believer!" Isn't his "I did not know I was a believer!" at the very root of his irreparable guilt?"
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"It's a terrible thing, what we did, said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it."
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"The Wrong we have Done, Thought, or Intended Will wreak its Vengeance onOur SOULS."
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"Maybe time would not feel as heavy if I didn't have this guilt - the guilt of knowing the truth and stuffing it down where no one can see it."
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"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed."
Woman
"Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul."
Soul
"I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women."
Friendship
"Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire."
Nation
"My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts."
Work
"I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt."
Guilt
"I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness."
Time
"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?'"
Relationship
"Writing is like carrying a fetus."
Writing
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