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Marquis de Sade

"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."

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"One is never so dangerous when one has no shame, than when one has grown too old to blush."

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"Shame weakens us. It can make us frightened to take on something new. We start to withdraw from whatever might give us pleasure, self-esteem, or a sense of our value."

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"Ira Gershwin, shame on him. I mean, some of the writing."

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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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"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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"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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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"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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"When you're ashamed of their action, to ask them the reason of their actions can make you a fool."

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