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Edward Burns

"I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check."

Edward Burns, American Actor
Guilt, Irish, Reality
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"I suffer from Irish-Catholic guilt. Guilt is a good reality check. It keeps that 'do what makes you happy' thing in check."

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Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet
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"The guilt applies only to those things that are being given away for free."

David Sedaris, American Writer
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"A pang of guilt, like a blaring siren, should never be ignored."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet
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"How now! Here's the smell of the blood still: all the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand." Lady Macbeth."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist
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"There is no such thing as collective guilt."

Kurt Waldheim, Austrian Politician
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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
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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."

Heather Locklear, American Actress
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"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
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"Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks."

Ovid, Roman Poet
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"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
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