#guilt

I have a high guilt quotient. A poem can go through as many as 50 or 60 drafts. It can take from a day to two years-or longer. ↗

— Rita Dove

#drafts #go #guilt #high #i

I walk around feeling a sort of existential guilt all the time; and honestly for me this house is a way of feeling less guilty about the universe. ↗

— Julia Louis-Dreyfus

#around #existential #feeling #guilt #guilty

Unfortunately, when someone asks me for a favor, I can't say no. Because of my upbringing - my Catholic guilt - if I don't do it, it plagues me. ↗

— Bradley Cooper

#because #catholic #catholic guilt #favor #guilt

One is often guilty by being too just. ↗

— Pierre Corneille

#guilty #just #often #too

And also they were absolutely brilliant in one way, you know: they knew how effective is not to punish somebody who is guilty; what Communist Party members could afford to do was mind-boggling: they could do practically anything they wanted - steal, you know, lie, whatever. ↗

— Milos Forman

#afford #also #anything #brilliant #communist

Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty. ↗

— Lillian Hellman

#costs #dramatic #failure #feel #form

I suppose all of us - we have the old Protestant work ethic of feeling guilty when you're not working, and getting a buzz from feeling like you're really busy. That's the reason to sort of carry on. ↗

— Jonny Greenwood

#buzz #carry #ethic #feeling #getting