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• The writer should never be ashamed of staring. There is nothing that does not require his attention.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Doe, Attention, Literature

  Flannery O'Connor (1969). “Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose”, p.84, Macmillan

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• Whoever blushes is already guilty; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Innocence, Guilty

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1979). “Emile: Or, On Education”, p.217, Basic Books

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• Mormonism is the pure doctrine of Jesus Christ; of which I myself am not ashamed.

  Joseph Smith, Jr.

  Jesus, Doctrine, Mormonism

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• We all know what Parliament is, and we are all ashamed of it.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Political, Politics, Parliament

  Robert Louis Stevenson (1999). “The Lantern-Bearers and Other Essays”, p.204, Cooper Square Press

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• We need never be ashamed of our tears.

  Charles Dickens

  Sad, Break Up, Breakup

  Charles Dickens (2016). “Great Expectations”, Xist Publishing

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• It is so conceited and timid to be ashamed of one's mistakes. Of course they are mistakes. Go on to the next.

  Brenda Ueland

  Letting Go, Art, Mistake

  Brenda Ueland (2013). “If You Want to Write”, p.137, Simon and Schuster

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• Anger and hate against one we love steels our hearts, but contempt or pity leaves us silent and ashamed.

  Edgar Rice Burroughs

  Hate, Anger, Heart

  Edgar Rice Burroughs (2008). “Tarzan of the Apes”, p.162, Cosimo, Inc.

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• There's a lot of skeletons in my closet, but I know what they're wearing. I'm not gonna act all ashamed of it.

  Naomi Watts

  Skeletons, Closets, Knows

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am ashamed to admit I watch a lot of reality shows like The Osbournes and The Bachelor.

  Sara Gilbert

  Reality, Watches, Bachelors

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• So many people have really wanted to die. They seem ashamed to say so. I think it would help if they would say so

  Mercedes McCambridge

  Thinking, People, Helping

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• I'm not ashamed to say that I cried at an animation movie

  America Ferrera

  Animation, Cried

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• I haven't done anything that I'm ashamed of.

  Martin McGuinness

  Done, Havens

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• There really is something raw about sexuality that's real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But - we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex.

  Kyan Douglas

  Sex, Real, Honor

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I am not ashamed of the Gospel of Christ

  Phil Robertson

  Christ

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• I would certainly never suggest that any lesbian should be ashamed of her sexual preference.

  Ed McBain

  Preference, Should

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• Of course it's difficult to top a box office success like Emmanuelle, so it will always be my most important work. But that's nothing to be ashamed of.

  Sylvia Kristel

  Office, Important, Boxes

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• What a man is ashamed of is always at bottom himself; and he is ashamed of himself at bottom always for being afraid.

  Robin G. Collingwood

  Men, Shame, Bottom

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• Never be ashamed to write a melody that people remember.

  Burt Bacharach

  Writing, People, Remember

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• The Cold War in Africa is one of the darkest, most disgraceful pages in contemporary history, and everybody ought to be ashamed.

  Ryszard Kapuscinski

  War, Pages, Cold

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• There are a great many colored people who are ashamed of the cake-walk, but I think they ought to be proud of it.

  James Weldon Johnson

  Thinking, Cake, People

  James Weldon Johnson (2012). “The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man”, p.40, Courier Corporation

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• I ain't a bit ashamed of anything.

  Anthony Trollope

  Literature, Bits

  Anthony Trollope (2015). “The Palliser Novels: Complete Parliamentary Chronicles (All Six Novels in One Volume): Can You Forgive Her? + Phineas Finn + The Eustace Diamonds + Phineas Redux + The Prime Minister + The Duke’s Children”, p.1596, e-artnow

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• Now, being a girl, I was ashamed of my body and my lack of strength. So I tried to be a man. I shot, rode, jumped, and took part in all the fights of the boys.

  Agnes Smedley

  Girl, Fighting, Boys

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• Never be ashamed of what you feel. You have the right to feel any emotion that you want, and to do what makes you happy. That's my life motto.

  Demi Lovato

  Life, Want, Emotion

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  Cows are amongst the gentlest of breathing creatures; none show more passionate tenderness to their young when deprived of them; and, in short, I am not ashamed to profess a deep love for these quiet creatures.

  Thomas de Quincey

  Deep Love, Animal, Breathing

  Thomas De Quincey (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Thomas De Quincey (Illustrated)”, p.168, Delphi Classics

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• Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts. I was better after I had cried, than before--more sorry, more aware of my own ingratitude, more gentle.

  Charles Dickens

  Sorry, Rain, Heart

  Charles Dickens (2016). “British Classics: Great Expectations”, p.132, The Planet

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