"When you're out of sight for as long as I was, there's a funny feeling of betrayal that comes over people when they see you again."
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"If I were a person of color in Florida, I would pick up a brick and start walking toward that courthouse in Sanford. Those that do not, those that hold the pain and betrayal inside and somehow manage to resist violence - these citizens are testament to a stoic tolerance that is more than the rest of us deserve. I confess, their patience and patriotism is well beyond my own."
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"Deep down, my mom had long suspected I was gay... Much of her anger and hurt came from her sense of betrayal that she was the last to be told."
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"Long before morning I knew that what I was seeking to discover was a thing I'd always known. That all courage was a form of constancy. That it is always himself that the coward abandoned first. After this all other betrayals come easily."
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"It is all right to rat, but you can't re-rat."
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"Then you should have died! Died, rather than betray your friends, as we would have done for you!"
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"She who resists as though she would not win, By her own treason falls an easy prey."
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"When we try to conceal our innermost drives, the entire being screams betrayal."
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"Sincerity is a great but rare virtue, and we pardon to it much complaining, and the betrayal of many weaknesses."
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"I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years."
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"A time comes when silence is betrayal."
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"As a rule the person found out in a betrayal of love holds, all the same, the superior position of the two. It is the betrayed one who is humiliated."
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"For me, fiscal realism is not a betrayal of Labour values; it is the foundation by which we win the trust of the public."
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"Muhammad is more human, more self-doubting, even self-tortured at times. His story is full of adventure, intrigue, betrayal."
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"Keep guard over your eyes and ears as the inlets of your heart, and over your lips as the outlets, lest they betray you in a moment of unwariness."
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"Whom neither shape of danger can dismay, Nor thought of tender happiness betray."
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"If your voice is heard by more people because you've earned some kind of name and fame, your silence on an issue of urgent moral importance is even more of a betrayal. Privilege is obligation."
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"I could never hurt him enough to make his betrayal stop hurting. And it hurts, in every part of my body."
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"No one ever really pays for betrayal in silver....The price of any betrayal always comes due in flesh."
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"Alas! how difficult it is not to betray one's guilt by one's looks."
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