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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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I know what it's like to have someone coming home who looks at you not in the way they used to in…
— Jane Birkin
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In the face of the oppressed I recognize my own face, and in the hands of the oppressor I recognize my own…
— Henri Nouwen
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Furthermore, what profit was it to me that I, rascally slave of selfish ambitions that I was, read and understood by myself…
— Saint Augustine
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Yes, I suffer terribly from depression. I have to work at being happy, it's not my natural instinct. My natural instinct is,…
— Fannie Flagg
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Every year I look at the 'GQ' Best-Dressed List and have thought what an honour it must be to be included. I…
— Douglas Booth
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I was unrecognizable to myself; I saw my reflection in a window; I didn't know my own face.
— Bruce Springsteen
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In my books I might hold the mirror to my own face. If others would like to borrow the mirror, they're welcome.…
— John Scott
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Why do the people humiliate themselves by voting? I didn't vote because I have dignity. If I had closed my nose and…
— Oriana Fallaci
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I want the freedom to carve and chisel my own face, to staunch the bleeding with ashes, to fashion my own gods…
— Gloria E. Anzaldúa
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And that was it; it was so easy for her. My own memories did not even belong to me. But I knew…
— Sarah Dessen
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You said, 'I'm going to leave him because my love for you makes any other life a lie.' I've hidden these words…
— Jeanette Winterson
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I am soooo excited, I am over-excited. I'm hysterical, I may have to slap my own face in a minute at this…
— Louise Rennison
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