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Lionel Shriver has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.
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In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything…
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We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure on our…
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Time itself made all things rare.
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When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release. For in…
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A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with…
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Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of…
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...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or…
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You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some…
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There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike the slight…
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Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was familiar, it…
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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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Classic art was the art of necessity: modern romantic art bears the stamp of caprice and chance.
— Max Eastman
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Caprice in woman is the antidote to beauty.
— Jean de la Bruyere
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How wayward is this foolish love that, like a testy babe, will scratch the nurse and presently, all humble, kiss the rod.
— William Shakespeare
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Idleness induces caprice.
— James Russell Lowell
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One might almost fear," writes a thoughtful woman, "seeing how the women of to-day are lightly stirred up to run after some…
— Samuel Smiles
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The past is democratic, because it is a people. The future is despotic, because it is a caprice. Every man is alone…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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There is a proverb in the South that a woman laughs when she can, and weeps when she pleases.
— Jean Antoine Petit-Senn
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We are the creatures of imagination, passion, and self-will, more than of reason or even of self-interest. Even in the common transactions…
— William Hazlitt
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We seek our happiness outside ourselves, and in the opinion of men we know to be flatterers, insincere, unjust, full of envy,…
— Jean de la Bruyere
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Woman is a miracle of divine contradictions.
— Jules Michelet
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Fortune is proverbially called changeful, yet her caprice often takes the form of repeating again and again a similar stroke of luck…
— Charlotte Bronte
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It is possible that these may all be insufficient to control the caprice and wickedness of man. But are they not all…
— James Madison
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