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"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."
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"We would not be ashamed of doing some of the things we do in private, if the number of sane human beings who do them in public were large enough."
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"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."
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"We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."
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"It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame."
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"Shame control us and our lives, it makes the choices we just state in spec and watch what's doing... as far as now it goes like a bot... auto!"
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"I felt ashamed.""But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?""No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal.""But how could you help that?""Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?"
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"She told me that women who wore makeup had bad values. Putting on makeup would have been a statement-a rebellion. I didn't try it. I grew to feel guilty for wanting to feel attractive."
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"She had wanted me to hold rape inside me like a dark pearl, keep it in there, as it grew, as I grew cramped, as it overtook me as hidden things do. Secrets become lies. I'd carried in every step I took this lie, the shame of it."
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"Most of the groups I worked with 30 years ago are either dead or dead broke. And it's a shame."
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"O shame! Where is they blush?"
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"The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship."
Progress
"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."
Old
"What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?"
Virtue
"It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date."
Youth
"The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself."
Friendship
"A great devotee of the gospel of getting on."
Motivation
"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."
Language
"Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation."
Religion
"She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech."
Communication
"I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake."
Life
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