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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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Outside show is a poor substitute for inner worth.
— Aesop
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Chivalry is a poor substitute for justice, if one cannot have both. Chivalry is something like the icing on the cake, sweet…
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Sleep: a poor substitute for caffeine!
— Wallace Shawn
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Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
— Howard Zinn
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Fondness is a poor substitute for friendship.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
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The man who enters combat encased in solid armor plate, but lacking the essential of selfconfidence, is far more exposed and naked…
— Robert S. Johnson
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Consensus is a poor substitute for leadership.
— Charlotte Beers
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Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
— Benjamin Cardozo
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Alas! innocence is but a poor substitute for experience.
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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For people who cannot get to church for various reasons, this is a great option. But it will always be a poor…
— Craig Detweiler
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Criticism is necessary and useful; it is often indispensable; but it can never take the place of action, or be even a…
— Theodore Roosevelt
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Today's developer is a poor substitute for the committed entrepreneur of the last century for whom the work of architecture represented a…
— Arthur Erickson
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