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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."

Lauren Oliver, American Author

Guilt, Anger, Blame, Responsibility

"I don't feel guilt. Whatever I wish to do, I do."

Jeanne Moreau, French Actress

Guilt,

"Guilt is a weird thing to me. I don't have a lot of it."

Andy Dick, American Actor

Guilt,

"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."

Veronica Roth, American Author

Guilt, Truth, Regret, Time

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

Ovid, Roman Poet

Guilt,

"It was something quite special, that feeling: an oppressive, hideous constraint as if I were sitting with the small ghost of somebody I had just killed."

Vladimir Nabokov, American Novelist

Guilt, Memory, Emotion, Truth

"My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted."

Franz Kafka, Austrian Novelist

Guilt,

"What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy."

Dennis Miller, American Comedian

Guilt, Reason

"With a parent, it's always guilt. You want to be there, but you kind of also want to be here."

Heather Locklear, American Actress

Guilt, Want

"In many criminals, especially youthful ones, it is possible to detect a very powerful sense of guilt which existed before the crime, and is therefore not its result but its motive. It is as if it was a relief to be able to fasten this unconscious sense of guilt on to something real and immediate."

Sigmund Freud, Austrian Psychologist

Guilt, Psychology, Crime, Motive

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"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

"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

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

Woman

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

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