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“I don't think it's shameful to admit that some days your time can be better spent reading than writing.”

Thinking Writing Reading Shameful

Author:Curtis Sittenfeld

“Then no rightful cause was left, and the pain of anger was turning into the shameful pain of submission. He had no right to condemn anyone - he thought - to denounce anything, to fight and die joyously, claiming the sanctity of virtue. The broken promises, the unconfessed desires, the betrayal, the deceit, the lies, the fraud - he was guilty of them all. What form of corruption could he scorn? Degrees do not matter, he thought; one does not bargain about inches of evil.”

“I find it shameful that in nearly all the universities of Europe, Palestinian students sponsor and nurture anti-Semitism.”

Students Europe University Palestinian Nurture Shameful Anti Semitism Sponsors

Author:Oriana Fallaci

“Of the primary emotions, fear is the one that bears most directly on survival. Children show fear. Adults try not to, maybe because it's shameful, or, in some circumstances, dangerous. The fear response is automatic, though, and your body runs through its reflexes whether you want it to or not.”

Want Trying Children Shows Body Running Emotion Dangerous Bears Circumstances Survival Adults Response Your Body Primaries Shameful Reflexes

Author:Sebastian Junger

“So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free association with one who is.”

Men Way Seems Knowing Waste Prejudice Association Shameful

Author:H. L. Mencken

“The technique of winning is so shoddy, the terms of winning are so ignoble, the tenure of winning is so brief; and the specter of the has-been-a shameful rather than a pitiable sight today-brings a sudden chill even to our sunlit moments.”

Has Beens Moments Today Success Winning Term Sight Technique Chill Shameful Tenure Ignoble

Author:Louis Kronenberger

“No sane person, I hope, would accuse me of saying that every Distributist must drink beer; especially if he could brew his own cider or found claret better for his health. But I do most emphatically scorn and scout the vulgar refinement that regards beer as something unseemly and humiliating. And I would shout the name of beer a hundred times a day, to shock all the snobs who have so shameful a sense of shame.”

Ifs Persons Found Names Drink Hundred Regard Shame Beer Shock Sane Vulgar Scorn Shameful Refinement Humiliating Snob Cider Claret

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“Skepticism is the chastity of the intellect, and it is shameful to surrender it too soon or to the first comer.”

Thinking Firsts Intellect Surrender Skepticism Shameful Skeptic Chastity Ripeness

Author:George Santayana

“Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way to see them; we drop in on them because they're so close. If it took some effort to see old movies, we might try to find out which were the good ones, and if people saw only the good ones maybe they would still respect old movies. As it is, people sit and watch movies that audiences walked out on thirty years ago. Like Lot's wife, we are tempted to take another look, attracted not by evil but by something that seems much more shameful -- our own innocence.”

Source: Raising Kane and Other Essays

“Luckless is the country in which the symbols of procreation are the objects of shame, while the agents of destruction are honored! And yet you call that member your pudendum, or shameful part, as if there were anything more glorious than creating life, or anything more atrocious than taking it away.”

Ifs Country Objects Birth Members Creating Destruction Shame Symbols Agents Glorious Honored Shameful Procreation Creating Life

Author:Cyrano de Bergerac

“Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.”

Book Reading Space Reader Mark Mere Pens Flawed Positively Shameful Enabling Repressed Derivatives Antithesis

Author:Terry Eagleton

“Second of all, I don't think Wall Street is doing what it's supposed to be doing, even after the shameful performance of the last two years. They're are not allocating capital.”

Thinking Years Two Lasts Streets Wall Performances Supposed To Be Two Years Shameful

Author:Howard Dean

“I became an electrician after high school. But I always had this thing in me to write. But it was always a little shameful. To say you were a poet was saying you were kind of crazy, and I carried that around for a long time. I still kind of carry that. And I think it might be true, actually.”

Thinking Writing Kind Littles Long Stills Might School Crazy Poet Long Time High School Being True Shameful After High School Electrician Life After High School

Author:Nick Flynn

“The old saying that war is a racket has taken on an even more shameful meaning.”

War Taken Shameful Racket Old Saying

Author:David Hackworth