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“We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.” George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman
“That’s the way you feel when you’re beaten inside. You don’t feel angry at those who’ve beaten you. You just feel ashamed.” Marilyn Monroe, My Story
“Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me. Fool me three times, shame on both of us.” Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft
“It is a most miserable thing to feel ashamed of home. There may be black ingratitude in the thing, and the punishment may be retributive and well deserved; but that it is a miserable thing, I can testify.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Shyness is when you turn your head away from something you want. Shame is when you turn your head away from something you do not want.” Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“money couldn't keep shame and sorrow out of rich people's houses” Louisa May Alcott, Little Women
“What people are ashamed of usually makes a good story.” F. Scott Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon
“If I could dream at all, it would be about you. And I'm not ashamed of it.” Stephenie Meyer, Twilight
“There’s no shame in fear, my father told me, what matters is how we face it.” George R. R. Martin, A Clash of Kings
“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.” William Shakespeare, Henry V
“Blushes are the sign of guilt; true innocence is ashamed of nothing.” Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Emile, or On Education
“Come, pluck up a good heart; speak the truth and shame the devil.” François Rabelais, Gargantua and Pantagruel
“Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“an ambitious man desires nothing so much as glory, and fears nothing so much as shame.” Baruch Spinoza, Ethics
“No one who knew him ever believed him capable of a dishonorable act, and nothing could be more dishonorable than to accept high rank and command in war and then betray the trust.” Ulysses S. Grant, Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.” Henry Miller, Tropic of Cancer
“And, above all, do not be so ashamed of yourself, for that is at the root of it all. ” Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov
“The books that the world calls immoral are books that show the world its own shame.” Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray

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