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The author Phillip Lopate complains that the problem with confessional writing is that people don't confess enough.
And I agree with essayist Phillip Lopate: "The problem with confessional writing in this country is that people don't confess enough".
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Anatole Broyard had confessed enough in his time to know that confession did nothing for the soul.
After eight years of editor's letters, I'd confessed enough.
In fact, I will confess myself enough of a heretic to the French tradition of gastronomy, as important as it is to my own culture, to admit that the French insistence on wine at lunch has always been a hard one for this North American's nervous system to handle.
Maybe we failed to confess, often enough, that past results are only a weak indicator of future ones.
Even one glass, he confessed, "is enough to turn life into a valley of tears for me".
The idea is simple enough: confess your secrets, fears or admit mistakes to anyone who would care to listen, or to friends.
Did I not spend enough time with her, did I not make her comfortable enough to confess this to me years ago?
Members old enough to confess their faith are baptized by being immersed in water three times.
Then, moving from desk to desk, he'd poll the students, embarrassing those honest enough to confess their ignorance.
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