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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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"Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt."

Saint Augustine, Algerian Saint
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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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"There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good."

Jude Law, British Actor
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Amber Hurdle

"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
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Amber Hurdle

"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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"Vultures pick the meat clean off a bone. Guilt eats at the marrow, leaving a man hollow."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet
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Amber Hurdle

"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
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Amber Hurdle

"Of course we're guilty!-That's what we've got pardons for!"

Anthony T. Hincks, British Writer
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"Guilt chilled me more than all of this rain combined."

Katherine McIntyre, American Novelist
Guilt, Emotion, Weather, Pain
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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
Guilt, Deception, Lie, Trust

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