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embarrassment quotes

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“But that intimacy of mutual embarrassment, in which each feels that the other is feeling something, having once existed, its effect is not to be done away with.” George Eliot, Middlemarch
“The nature of parents is to embarrass merely by existing, just as it is the nature of children of a certain age to cringe with embarrassment, shame, and mortification should their parents so much as speak to them on the street.” Neil Gaiman, Anansi Boys
“The burden of poverty isn’t just that you don’t always have the things you need, it’s the feeling of being embarrassed every day of your life, and you’d do anything to lift that burden.” JAY-Z, Decoded
“It is one of my faults, that though my tongue is sometimes prompt enough at an answer, there are times when it sadly fails me in framing an excuse; and always the lapse occurs at some crisis, when a facile word or plausible pretext is specially...” Charlotte Brontë, Jane Eyre
“It is not advisable . . . to venture unsolicited opinions. You should spare yourself the embarrassing discovery of their exact value to your listener.” Ayn Rand, Atlas Shrugged
“That is, what can we be sure we know, or sure that we know we knew it, if indeed it is at all knowable. Or have we simply forgotten it and are too embarrassed to say anything?” Woody Allen, Getting Even

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