Trump Quotes by Lionel Shriver

The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— 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…

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Lionel Shriver

We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans.

— 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…

— 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…

— Lionel Shriver

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

— Lionel Shriver

“Bur Armenians have a talent for sorrow.”

— Lionel Shriver

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

— 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…

— Lionel Shriver