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> [“Discomfort begets discomfort in others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/discomfort-begets-discomfort-in-others/)

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

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> [You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/you-were-always-uncomfortable-with-the-rhetoric-of-emotion-which-is/)

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

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> [We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/lionel-shriver/we-d-been-assured-it-wouldn-t-be-painful-though-she-might-experience/)

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

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## Other authors on Discomfort

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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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