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I believe in one God, Creator of the Universe in that He ought to be whipped from pilar to post and back again for His… — Benjamin Franklin
For two extraordinary years I have been working on it - learning to write - but mostly learning how to tell the truth. At first… — Louise Brooks
The conventional parabola--sentiment, the touch of the hand, the kiss, the passionate kiss, the feel of the body, the climax in the bed, then more… — Ian Fleming
And that night we knew that to hold the body of women in our arms in neither ugly nor shameful, but the one ecstasy granted… — Ayn Rand
The greatest secret of monarchic rule...is to keep men deceived and to cloak in the specious name of religion the fear by which they must… — Baruch Spinoza
Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance… — George Bernard Shaw
In a train...smash. In his arm her last...breath.' He had loved her. But he hated himself more. Such suffering, so much pain. And he thought… — Janet Fitch
You can't have it both ways. Love is too powerful to hide for very long. Deny it and suffer the consequences. Acknowledge it and suffer… — Tonya Hurley
Similarly, the impulse to keep to yourself what you have learned is not only shameful, it is destructive. Anything you do not give freely and… — Annie Dillard
Where else would she feel more comfortable than in this subterranean realm where people wrote down what they couldn't say, where they gave voice to… — Jeffrey Eugenides
I must confess a shameful secret: I love Chicago best in the cold. — Erik Larson
It was a shameful thing that she had nothing of which to be ashamed. — Philip Jose Farmer
It's so shameful of me: I like you. — Steven Morrissey
What the worm was to the corpse, his sins would be to the painted image on the canvas. They would mar its beauty, and eat… — Oscar Wilde
People use drugs, legal and illegal, because their lives are intolerably painful or dull. They hate their work and find no rest in their leisure.… — Wendell Berry
As long as human labor power, and, consequently, life itself, remain articles of sale and purchase, of exploitation and robbery, the principle of the “sacredness… — Leon Trotsky
The true Indian sets no price upon either his property or his labor. His generosity is limited only by his strength and ability. He regards… — Charles Alexander Eastman
We are all substantially flawed, wounded, angry, hurt, here on Earth. But this human condition, so painful to us, and in someways shameful- because we… — Alice Walker
How can it be, I wondered, that we can be lying in bed next to a person we love wholly and helplessly, a person we… — Carolyn Parkhurst
Your deepest, darkest sins and your shameful secrets are simply irrelevant when it comes to the counterintuitive, ecstatic announcement of the gospel. So are your… — Rob Bell
It is so strange, to encounter an ex. It's as if you're in a foreign film, and what you're saying face-to-face has nothing to do… — Jodi Picoult
I steal into their dreams," he said. "I steal into their most shameful thoughts, I'm in every shiver, every spasm of their souls, I steal… — Roberto Bolano
The world is a den of thieves, and night is falling. Evil breaks its chains and runs through the world like a mad dog. The… — Ingmar Bergman
They carried all the emotional baggage of men who might die. Grief, terror, love, longing--these were intangibles, but the intangibles had their own mass and… — Tim O'Brien
The strongest guard is placed at the gateway to nothing. Maybe because the condition of emptiness is too shameful to be divulged. — F. Scott Fitzgerald

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