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• Be not ashamed women, ... You are the gates of the body, and you are the gates of the soul.

  Walt Whitman

  Inspirational, Being Yourself, Women

  Walt Whitman (2005). “Walt Whitman's Leaves of Grass”, p.68, Oxford University Press

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• The girl had a certain nobleness of imagination, which rendered her a good many services and played her a great many tricks. She spent half her time in thinking of beauty, bravery, magnanimity; she had a fixed determination to regard the world as a place of brightness, of free expansion, of irresistible action, she thought it would be detestable to be afraid or ashamed. She had an infinite hope that she would never do anything wrong. She had resented so strongly, after discovering them, her mere errors of feeling.

  Henry James

  Girl, Determination, Thinking

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• All right, you great git, you've asked for it. I'll cover the world in Tastee-Freez and Wimpy Burgers. I'll fill it with concrete runways, motorways, aircraft, television, automobiles, advertising, plastic flowers, frozen food and supersonic bangs. I'll make it so noisy and disgusting that even you'll be ashamed of yourself! No wonder you've so few friends; you're unbelievable!

  Peter Cook

  Flower, Bangs, Burgers

  "Fictional character: George Spiggott". "Bedazzled", www.imdb.com. December 10, 1967.

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• It's so hard to express yourself.' I understand this.' I want to express myself.' The same is true for me.' I'm looking for my voice.' It's in your mouth.' I want to do something I'm not ashamed of.' Something you are proud of, yes?' Not even. I just don't want to be ashamed.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Voice, Mouths, Want

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.70, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• She tried to explain the real state of the case to her sister. "I do not attempt to deny," said she, "that I think very highly of him--that I greatly esteem, that I like him." Marianne here burst with forth with indignation: "Esteem him! Like him! Cold-hearted Elinor. Oh! worse than cold-hearted! Ashamed of being otherwise. Use those words again, and I will leave the room this moment." Elinor could not help laughing. "Excuse me," said she, "and be assured that I meant no offence to you, by speaking, in so quiet a way, of my own feelings.

  Jane Austen

  Real, Thinking, Laughing

  Jane Austen (1864). “Sense and Sensibility”, p.17

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• Family are the people who must make you feel ashamed when you are deserving of shame.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  People, Shame, Feels

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2013). “Everything Is Illuminated”, p.245, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Military people never seem to apologize for killing each other yet novelists feel ashamed for writing some nice inert paper book that is not certain to be read by anybody.

  Leonora Carrington

  Military, Nice, Book

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• And how have I lived? Frankly and openly, though crudely. I have not been afraid of life. I have not shrunk from it. I have taken it for what it was at its own valuation. And I have not been ashamed of it. Just as it was, it was mine.

  Jack London

  Taken, Afraid Of Life, Valuation

  Jack London (1988). “The Letters of Jack London: 1913-1916. Volume three”, p.279, Stanford University Press

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• But, when the chips are down, its better to be furious with someone you love, or frightened for someone you love, than be put through the merciless horror of being ashamed of someone you love.

  James A. Baldwin

  Someone You Love, Horror, Chips

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• But there was no need to be ashamed of tears, for tears bore witness that a man had the greatest of courage, the courage to suffer.

  Viktor E. Frankl

  Courage, Grief, Men

  Viktor E. Frankl (2015). “Man's Search For Meaning, Gift Edition”, p.64, Beacon Press

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• Imagine the people who believe such things and who are not ashamed to ignore, totally, all the patient findings of thinking minds through all the centuries since the Bible was written. And it is these ignorant people, the most uneducated, the most unimaginative, the most unthinking among us, who would make themselves the guides and leaders of us all; who would force their feeble and childish beliefs on us; who would invade our schools and libraries and homes. I personally resent it bitterly.

  Isaac Asimov

  Believe, Home, School

  "The Blind Who Would Lead". "The Roving Mind". Book by Isaac Asimov, 1983.

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• A man has no reason to be ashamed of having an ape for his grandfather. If there were an ancestor whom I should feel shame in recalling it would rather be a man who plunges into scientific questions with which he has no real acquaintance, only to obscure them by an aimless rhetoric.

  Thomas Huxley

  Real, Science, Men

  Quoted in Leonard Huxley, Life and Letters of Thomas Henry Huxley (1900)

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• I'm like a starving man who has been given food. Maybe he's cold, and his clothes are torn, and he's ashamed, but he's not unhappy.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Men, Clothes, Unhappy

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• You can't hide the thunderbolt. When it hits you, everybody can see it. Christ, man, don't be ashamed of it, some men pray for the thunderbolt. You're a very lucky fellow. - Calo

  Mario Puzo

  Men, Lucky, Praying

  Mario Puzo (2002). “The Godfather”, N A L Trade

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• I feel ashamed now that I tried to take my life. It is such a precious thing. I had no one to talk me out of my despair and that was a mistake. You need to keep people close. You need to give them access to your heart.

  Mitch Albom

  Mistake, Heart, People

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• I had rather complain of ill-fortune than be ashamed of victory.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Victory, Complaining, Fortune

  Michel de Montaigne “Annotated Essays of Michel de Montaigne with English Grammar Exercises: by Michel de Montaigne (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

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• I am ashamed of anyone who has eyes and still can't see.

  Kathryn Lasky

  Eye, Shame, Stills

  Kathryn Lasky (2016). “The Journey (Guardians of Ga’Hoole, Book 2)”, p.22, HarperCollins UK

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• don't be ashamed of anything; I guess God meant it all like locks on doors.

  Charles Bukowski

  Doors, Locks

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• You have made me ashamed of the wasted years. You have made me acknowledge that no darkness has ever been deep enough to extinguish my personal knowledge of love. And all around me in this world I see evidence of love. I see love. I see it in the human struggle. I see its undeniable penetration in all that humans have accomplished in their poetry, their painting, their music, their love of one another and refusal to accept suffering as their lot.

  Anne Rice

  Struggle, Personal Knowledge, Years

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• Her cheeks were flushed. She caught hold of the Savage's arm and pressed it, limp, against her side. He looked down at her for a moment, pale, pained, desiring, and ashamed of his desire. He was not worthy, not... Their eyes for a moment met. What treasures hers promised! A queen's ransom of temperament. Hastily he looked away, disengaged his imprisoned arm. He was obscurely terrified lest she should cease to be something he could feel himself unworthy of.

  Aldous Huxley

  Queens, Eye, Desire

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• It ought to make us feel ashamed when we talk like we know what we're talking about when we talk about love.

  Raymond Carver

  Talking, Feels, Ought

  Raymond Carver (2015). “What We Talk About When We Talk About Love”, p.116, Vintage

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• I, too, sing America. I am the darker brother. They send me to eat in the kitchen When company comes, But I laugh, And eat well, And grow strong. Tomorrow, I'll be at the table When company comes. Nobody'll dare Say to me, "Eat in the kitchen," Then. Besides, They'll see how beautiful I am And be ashamed-- I, too, am America.

  Langston Hughes

  Beautiful, Strong, Brother

  "I, Too" l. 1 (1925)

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• That was what gospel was meant to do - make you hate and love yourself at the same time, make you ashamed and glorified.

  Dorothy Allison

  Hate, Love Yourself, And Love

  Dorothy Allison (2005). “Bastard Out of Carolina: A Novel”, p.127, Penguin

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• In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt, now, she had come to the real bedrock of her nature, and was essentially shameless. She was her sensual self, naked an unashamed. She felt a triumph, almost a vainglory. So! That was how it was! That was life! That was how onself really was! There was nothing left to disguise or be ashamed of. She shared her ultimate nakedness with a man, another being.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Summer, Real, Night

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• I want to go on being a student," I told him. "I want to be a teacher. I'm just a reader," I said. "DON'T SOUND SO ASHAMED," he said. "READING IS A GIFT." "I learned it from you," I told him. "IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU LEARNED IT- IT'S A GIFT. IF YOU CARE ABOUT SOMETHING, YOU HAVE TO PROTECT IT. IF YOU'RE LUCKY ENOUGH TO FIND A WAY OF LIFE YOU LOVE, YOU HAVE TO FIND THE COURAGE TO LIVE IT.

  John Irving

  Teacher, Love You, Reading

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