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People Quotes by Lionel Shriver
- In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking for anything in the prose…
- ...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever;…
- You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not for some attainment. Like most…
- A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want…
- The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
- No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And…
- Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and…
- I have never in all my life considered you other people.
- ...some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.
- People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
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- Both oligarch and tyrant mistrust the people, and therefore deprive them of their arms. — Aristotle