Trump is not charismatic. He is artless and politically clumsy and wears his egotism on his sleeve. — Lionel Shriver Charismatic Copy Share Image
“It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either.” — Lionel Shriver Generosity Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Discovery Copy Share Image
Trump can't string a single grammatical sentence together, and at the podium, he is lumpen and awkward. — Lionel Shriver Awkward Copy Share Image
“Great American Novel” = ”doorstop of a book, usually pretentious, written by a man.” — Lionel Shriver Book Copy Share Image
Novelists are too often assumed to write veiled autobiography. — Lionel Shriver Autobiography Copy Share Image
“How much did you care about anything that went on in my head until it got out?” — Lionel Shriver Went Copy Share Image
Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home. — Lionel Shriver Come home Copy Share Image
Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life,… — Lionel Shriver Books Copy Share Image
“Everything works, doesn't it? At least if you're white and middle class. So it must often seem to young people that they're… — Lionel Shriver Middle class Copy Share Image
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's… — Lionel Shriver Child Copy Share Image
“I so mixed and matched the planet that you sometimes worried I had no commitments to anything or anywhere, though you were… — Lionel Shriver Worried Commitments Copy Share Image
“But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were… — Lionel Shriver Children Copy Share Image
“And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.” — Lionel Shriver Consuming Copy Share Image
Overly vigorous investigations of ominously ill-defined 'bullying' can themselves constitute a form of bullying. — Lionel Shriver Bullying Copy Share Image
When Mexico enjoys an economic boom while the U.S. is in dire fiscal straights, it seemed perfectly credible that Mexico would not… — Lionel Shriver Economic Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys… — Lionel Shriver Boys Copy Share Image
I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke… — Lionel Shriver Annoying Copy Share Image
I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going… — Lionel Shriver Art Copy Share Image
Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison. "Yes, we're all alike," I said. "We cover for you,… — Lionel Shriver Adoration Copy Share Image
“He'd been unable to discern whether this frantic bustle of hers was what it claimed to be - an ardent determination to… — Lionel Shriver Determination Copy Share Image
You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some… — Lionel Shriver Age Copy Share Image
In fact, it's become politically important to offend people, because we have to fight back against this notion that being offensive should… — Lionel Shriver Deserve Copy Share Image
I am hopeful that the concept of 'cultural appropriation' is a passing fad: people with different backgrounds rubbing up against each other… — Lionel Shriver Appropriation Copy Share Image
“I had some idea of what I was supposed to say back: Now, I know you don’t mean that, when I knew… — Lionel Shriver Young man Copy Share Image
“Cynics are spoiled romantics. They are always the ones who had the highest expectations at the start. They were once so naïve… — Lionel Shriver Acquired taste Copy Share Image
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some… — Lionel Shriver Abandoned Copy Share Image
“I'm unsure why one trifling incident this afternoon has moved me to write to you. But since we've been separated, I may… — Lionel Shriver Coming home Copy Share Image
“And of course Brian was far more upset about separation from those two blond moppets than about leaving Louise. There shouldn't be… — Lionel Shriver Ex wife Copy Share Image
“You know that euphemism, she’s expecting? It’s apt. The birth of a baby, so long as it’s healthy, is something to look… — Lionel Shriver Birth Copy Share Image
“...it's not all it's cracked up to be, having real emotions. I know that with the most dazzling men there have been… — Lionel Shriver Emotions Copy Share Image
“Because let's talk about power. In the domestic polity, myth dictates that parents are endowed with a disproportionate amount of it. I'm… — Lionel Shriver Child Copy Share Image
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