Edgar Hilsenrath Quotes
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If I had undertaken the practical direction of military operations, and anything went amiss, I feared that my conscience would torture me, as guilty of the fall of my country, as I had not been familiar with military tactics.
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I'm guilty of it myself, sort of thinking, 'Classic novels: snoozeville.' But there is a huge amount of wonderful material.
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It is enough for a poet to be the guilty conscience of his age.
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I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.
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Every Yom Kippur, Jewish tradition requires a strict spiritual inventory. You aren't supposed to just sit around feeling guilty, but to take action in the real world to set things right.
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When I was working a lot, I felt guilty as a parent. I couldn't pick up my son every day from school, bake him cookies and that kind of thing.
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If someone has been bad to me, I believe in being good to that person. It's my way of getting back. Because that person is going to feel guilty about it.
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The only crime I'm guilty of is being a young black woman.
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The capture of Saddam Hussein has proven to the bad ones, to the guilty ones, to the sinful ones that they cannot run forever. Sooner or later, the other criminals will also be found from their hideouts.
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My guilty pleasure is Flamin' Hot Cheetos.
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When a person is found not guilty, they're found not guilty.
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No American should be killed by a drone on American soil without first being charged with a crime, without first being found guilty of a crime by a court.
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I am guilty of using dollar signs as proof of a work of art's longevity.
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I don't really want to have any part of getting guilty people off.
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Truth, in the matters of religion, is simply the opinion that has survived.
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I get paid for seeing that my clients have every break the law allows. I have knowingly defended a number of guilty men. But the guilty never escape unscathed. My fees are sufficient punishment for anyone.
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Pity for the guilty is treason to the innocent.
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Dispensing with confrontation because testimony is obviously reliable is akin to dispensing with jury trial because a defendant is obviously guilty.
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When you're in the National Football League, and you get this window where all eyes are on you, you can use that. You can use that platform for good.
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I should probably bequeath the copyrights to my screenplay for Spies Like Us, just in case.
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First Theory.-There is no Providence at all for anything in the Universe; all parts of the Universe, the heavens and what they contain, owe their origin to accident and chance; there exists no being that rules and governs them or provides for them. This is the theory of Epicurus...
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But guys such as Allen and William are more supportive than most men.
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I felt guilty because I survived.
