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What a shabby lot of highbrows have turned out tonight," he said, when he saw us. "It makes me asham...

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Anthony PowellA Dance to the Music of Time: 2nd Movement

Many veterans feel guilty because they lived while others died. Some feel ashamed because they didn’...

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These are the stories that we tell ourselves and only ourselves, and they are better left unshared.

I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's...

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And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.

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Paul AusterStation Hill Blanchot Reader

Unless you're ashamed of yourself now and then, you're not honest

Be proud of your people when you don't have to be ashamed of any of its social classes.