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The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
-J. P. Donleavy
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J. P. Donleavy
The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.
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The difference between guilt and shame is very clear--in theory. we feel guilty for what we do. we feel shame for what we are. a person feels guilt because he did something wrong. a person feels shame because he is something wrong. we may feel guilty because we lied to our mother. we may feel shame because we are not the person our mother wanted us to be.
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My mother got sick when i was rich. and my mother, you know … i don’t really want to get into it, but my mother was sicker than my father. and my mother’s alive. my mother’s fine, ok? i remember going to the hospital to see my mother and wondering, ‘was i in the right place?’ like, this was a hotel. like it had a concierge, man. if the average person really knew the discrepancy in the health care system, there’d be riots in the streets, ok? they would burn this m-therf—ker down!
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