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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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If you like my novels, I commend your good taste.
— Rita Mae Brown
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Pleasures are all alike simply considered in themselves: he that hunts, or he that governs the commonwealth, they both please themselves alike,…
— John Selden
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If you would serve your brother it is fit for you to serve him, do not take back your words when you…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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Trusting in Him, who can go with me, and remain with you and be every where for good, let us confidently hope…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Commend me to sterling honesty though clad in rags.
— Walter Scott
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Commend a fool for his wit, or a rogue for his honesty and he will receive you into his favour.
— Henry Fielding
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People can commend the weather without envy.
— William Shenstone
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There is nothing more universally commended than a fine day; the reason is that people can commend it without envy.
— William Shenstone
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Education in the United States is a passion and a paradox. Millions want it, and commend it, and are busy about it.…
— Jacques Barzun
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We should let God be the One to praise us and not praise ourselves. For God detests those who commend themselves. Let…
— Pope Clement I
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We commend the commission, under the leadership of Chairman Martin, for recognizing the reality of today's communications marketplace and for fostering an…
— Edward Whitacre, Jr.
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While I do commend the Administration on its commitment and focus on high school reform, I believe that we must focus on…
— Ruben Hinojosa
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