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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."

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

"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."

"Well it's because the record companies are pumping away with their commercial stuff. I think it's a shame."

"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."

"I'm dying from about ninety-nine kinds of shame."
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"O God that men should put an enemy in their mouths to steal away their brains! that we should with joy pleas-ance revel and applause transform ourselves into beasts!"

"O, then I see Queen Mab hath been with you. . . .She is the fairies' midwife, and she comesIn shape no bigger than an agate stoneOn the forefinger of an alderman,Drawn with a team of little atomiAthwart men's noses as they lie asleep."
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