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> [“And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/and-one-of-our-consuming-diversions-as-we-age-is-to-recite-not-only/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

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> [“Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/not-that-happiness-is-dull-only-that-it-doesn-t-tell-well-and-one-of/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

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## More by Lionel Shriver

> [The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/the-discovery-that-heartbreak-is-indeed-heartbreaking-consoles-us/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/i-m-a-journalist-and-journalists-need-news-deprive-them-of-it-and/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/one-of-the-things-i-learned-with-charles-said-gray-carefully-was-that/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/in-the-particular-dwells-the-tawdry-in-the-conceptual-dwells-the/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/the-idea-is-that-you-don-t-only-have-one-destiny-younger-and-younger/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/oddly-for-a-book-to-do-well-merely-because-people-like-it-is/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/and-there-s-a-freedom-in-apathy-a-wild-dizzying-liberation-on-which/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/the-sign-that-i-don-t-like-the-book-i-m-reading-is-finding-myself/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/we-speak-often-of-destroying-the-planet-when-what-we-mean-is/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/my-agent-had-warned-that-while-a-fine-film-would-do-my-profile-a/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/i-think-that-s-the-biggest-favor-you-can-grant-anyone-don-t-you/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/they-were-determined-to-find-something-mechanically-wrong-with-him/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [“Bur Armenians have a talent for sorrow.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/bur-armenians-have-a-talent-for-sorrow/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [“What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/what-is-cool-changes-that-there-is-such-a-thing-as-cool-is-immutable/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

> [“I have theorized that you can locate most people on a spectrum of the crudest sort and that it may be their position on…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/i-have-theorized-that-you-can-locate-most-people-on-a-spectrum-of-the/)

[Lionel Shriver](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/lionel-shriver/)

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