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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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We can gradually drop our ideals of who we think we ought to be, or who we think we want to be,…
— Pema Chodron
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God gave us minds to think with and hearts to thank with. Instead we use our hearts to think about the world…
— Douglas Wilson
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Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want
— C.S. Lewis
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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
— George Bernard Shaw
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And I really suspect that of all the things we think we want to know, the only thing we really want to…
— Rich Mullins
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I think, she began quietly, I think we want... not just bread for our bellies. We want more than only bread. We…
— Katherine Paterson
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We think we want to do something and when it comes to it, we don't. We don't like to commit.
— Linda McCartney
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I think there's a lot of hope in my work. I don't think I'm a total pessimist, so I think you can…
— Spike Lee
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I just think we want to stay healthy, and I don't think we think about a sense of urgency. We realize how…
— Karl Malone
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Most times we're so focused on what we think we want that we can't appreciate how happy we already are. It's only…
— Glenn Beck
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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
— Lionel Shriver
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There is a serious discrepancy between what we really wants, and what we usually do to get what we think we want.…
— Ilchi Lee
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