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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When I was 15, I begged my grandfather to give me this guitar he'd always had in the back of his closet. I promised him I'd learn to play it, but I never did. Then my grandfather died, and I felt so guilty. So I started playing.
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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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Youth cannot know how age thinks and feels. But old men are guilty if they forget what it was to be young.
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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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With marriage and fatherhood, I've finally found two fixed points in my life. They've taught me patience. They've also taught me that I don't need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.
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Lying to a committee is a very grave abuse, and there ought to be a clear punishment.
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A digital currency issued by a central bank would be a global target for cyber attacks, cyber counterfeiting, and cyber theft.
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The young women, what can they not learn, what can they not achieve, with Columbia University annex thrown open to them? In this great outlook for women's broader intellectual development I see the great sunburst of the future.
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I felt guilty because I survived.
