Happiness Quotes by Lionel Shriver

8 Happiness quotes by Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver’s eight short statements on happiness carry her narrative edge in a concise form. This brief collection provides a quick, thought‑provoking look at her perspective on contentment.

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The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

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“Outside, she thought that there ought to be a word for it: the air temperature that was perfectly neither hot nor cold.…

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When we conceive of happiness as a static state, effectively a place toward which we are aimed but at which most of…

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Yet Irina had once tucked away, she wasn't sure when or why, that happiness is almost definitionally a condition of which you…

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Happiness isn't a position. It's a trajectory.

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“Oh, you knew exactly what I meant. Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And one of our…

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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…

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In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration…

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Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare.

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“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.”

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The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

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“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…

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“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303”

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“Bur Armenians have a talent for sorrow.”

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“What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.”

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“I have theorized that you can locate most people on a spectrum of the crudest sort and that it may be their position on…

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