"If we have anything kind to say, any tender sentiment to express, we feel a sense of shame."

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Source : Ugo Betti (1964). “Three plays on justice: Landslide. Struggle till dawn. The fugitive”

Ugo Betti

#Guilt Quotes #Kind Quotes #Shame Quotes

“Comedy mocks the vanity of visions of rational control. The person who can joke amidst a confrontation with evil, like the quick-witted Spider-Man, must be reconciled to the permanent imperfections of a corrupted world populated by fallen creatures.”
“Everybody keeps telling me how surprised they are with what I've done. But I'm telling you honestly that it doesn't surprise me. I knew I could do it.”
“I've been on shows that go for shock value”
“So yeah, anyway - I'm thirty-four and my mother is desperate for me to get married. She thinks settling down is what you should be doing at thirty-four. How would she like it if I turned to her the day she hits eighty and said: 'Hey, Mum - when are you going to break your hip? All your friends are breaking theirs'?”
“I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.”
“In fact, looking back, it seems to me that I was clueless until I was about 50-years-old.”
“I'm rebelling against being handed a career, like, 'You're the next this; you're the next that.' I'm not the next anything, I'm the first me. I can't be myself, I can't just be Idris Elba. But that's just the nature of the business.”
“Everyone should write a book,Â if only to see how much work goes intoÂ even the slight volume I send you.”

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