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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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"It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame."
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Personal Development
"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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"That's the trouble with anything which essentially has a lot of bits that are physically impossible: You're left, stuck, in the studio. And that's a shame. You're making a movie. You don't want it to stay put, you want it to be a movie - to move."
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"I live, love and loathe my characters. They stole my mind. They stole my heart."
Art
"Trap yourself inside your own brain, switch off the light, block all the escape routes, then turn your back on everything you know to be reality and try and survive there. Try. Living. Nowhere."
Survival
"Please, never tell me what 'horror erotica' is. Real #art is being lost in a bizarre swamp of over-processed, sexually exploitative garbage."
Art
"People love books because they're searching for answers to deep, unconscious questions - and books get as close as it's possible to get."
Learning
"If I don't stay in and write, I feel like a prisoner."
Discipline
"It's better to be remembered for what you said, not what you earned."
Legacy
"It's late and most of the clerks are at home in their beds, dreaming of swimming in pools filled with real money."
Fantasy
"When a person sets out to learn from others and not to teach others he becomes a true writer."
Education
"Writing is a solitary existence, especially if you forget to chat to your friends " sorry, I meant characters."
Creativity
"Some ancient oversight had nearly taken his sight, but this sad fuck was already blind inside."
Philosophy
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