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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."

Christopher Meloni, American Actor

Guilt,

"I had told him I was searching for my keys, that's what had taken me so long in the car, and I squeezed him tighter, as if I could crush my little lie."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

Guilt, Deception, Lie, Trust

"Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks."

Ovid, Roman Poet

Guilt,

"Perhaps it was as well that she had been unconscious for four weeks. She had missed the aftermath, the SO-1 reports, the recriminations, Snood and Tamworth's funerals. She missed everything...except the blame. It was waiting for her when she awoke..."

Jasper Fforde, British Novelist

Guilt, Blame, Trauma, Responsibility

"Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One."

Roger Mahony, American Clergyman

Guilt, Law, State

"When a man admits guilt we have to believe him. We cannot set ourselves to proving to him that he is wrong. Otherwise the law courts would never function."

Hilary Mantel, British Novelist

Guilt, Law, Justice, Trust

"That I was sleeping at a time when my husband was dying is so horrible a thought, I can't confront it."

Joyce Carol Oates, American Novelist

Guilt, Regret, Truth, Emotion

"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."

Donald Miller, American Author

Guilt, Conscience, Alienation, Morality

"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."

Donna Tartt, American Novelist

Guilt, Regret, Violence, Conscience

"I nod, because I do understand. I'm just not sure how to go about divorcing myself from the evil I've already accepted."

Ellen Hopkins, American Novelist

Guilt, Acceptance, Evil, Self-Reflection

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"Writing is like carrying a fetus."

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"The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed."

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Nation

"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

"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

"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

"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

"I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt."

Guilt