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"Nobody can stop you but you. And shame on you if you're the one who stops yourself."
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"It's good to feel foolish sometimes, Fjerdan."You only say that because you have no shame."
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"I was ashamed of myself for being ashamed of myself. I didn't like feeling like that."
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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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"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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"I can see your dirtypillows."
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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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"It's not oil that runs the world, it's shame."
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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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"The shame that tormented me was all the more corrosive for having no very clear origin: I didn't know why I felt so tainted, and worthless, and wrong-only that I did, and whenever I looked up from my books I was swamped by slimy waters rushing in from all sides."
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"Shame comes in different doses."
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"Some struggle is healthy. If you can embrace it rather than be angry, you can use it as your pilot light."
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"My father was the guy on the block who said hi to everyone."
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"We have four beautiful children and some wonderful memories."
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"Being a celebrity, I don't even have to talk."
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"And for my family, comedically, that was the key to a lot of the humor."
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"And my marriage was perfect when I wasn't famous."
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"But my kids, my brothers' kids - they think about trying to top what we did."
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"I never thought about being famous."
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"I was 12 years old when I had my first job, delivering packages."
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"My father is a Jehovah's Witness, and he raised us under a very strict hand."
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