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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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A cat has a reputation to protect. If it had a halo, it would be worn cocked to one side.
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It slid away from his left boot which was poised with the trigger cocked
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It's better to go into the world half-cocked than not to go into the world at all.
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The sun is shining, mynah birds are chattering, palm trees are swaying, so what. I'm in the hospital and I'm healthy. My…
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...dreadful birds, dressed in red with breasts of silver buttons, and cocked heads and sharp mouths, looking for guilt like berries on…
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To knock a thing down, especially if it is cocked at an arrogant angle, is a deep delight of the blood.
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A birdie with a yellow bill Hoped upon the window sill, Cocked his shining eye and said: 'Ain't you 'shamed, you sleepy-'ead?
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Roarke's brow cocked as he noted Casto take in the black satin that slithered over Eve's body. In the manner of men…
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The things that brought me the most comfort now were too small to list. Raspberries in cream. Sparrows with cocked heads. Shadows…
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