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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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'Tis the maddest trick a man can ever play in his whole life, to let his breath sneak out of his body…
— Miguel de Cervantes
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I sometimes feel that more lousy dishes are presented under the banner of pate than any other.
— Kingsley Amis
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I plan to send my liver somewhere in France, to protest foie gras (liver pate) ... I plan to have handbags made…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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That skull had a tongue in it, and could sing once: how the knave jowls it to the ground, as if it…
— William Shakespeare
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A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is…
— Alan Watts
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There once was a Bald Man who sat down after work on a hot summer's day. A Fly came up and kept…
— Aesop
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Peanut butter is the pate of childhood.
— Florence Fabricant
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LIVER, n. A large red organ thoughtfully provided by nature to be bilious with. The liver is heaven's best gift to the…
— Ambrose Bierce
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You beat your Pate, and fancy Wit will come: Knock as you please, there's no body at home.
— Alexander Pope
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To want to meet an author because you like his books is as ridiculous as wanting to meet the goose because you…
— Arthur Koestler
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Cannibals? Who is not a cannibal? I tell you it will be more tolerable for the Fejee that salted down a lean…
— Herman Melville
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A good leg will fall, a straight back will stoop, a black beard will turn white, a curled pate will grow bald,…
— William Shakespeare
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