"A lot of people get so hung up……" — Lionel Shriver
"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 it."
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Lionel Shriver
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66 Quotes by Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver has 66 quotes on this site.
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Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned…
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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…
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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…
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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.…
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A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained,…
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Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the…
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...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to…
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You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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More Hung Quotes
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I never get hung up on the past - the memories are too negative.
— Brigitte Bardot
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I love Wagner, but the music I prefer is that of a cat hung up by its tail outside a…
— Charles Baudelaire
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Let me tell you, it is still morning in America. It just happens to be kind of a head pounding,…
— Glenn Beck
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If I was freer than I had ever been in my life, I was not yet entirely free, for I…
— Wendell Berry
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I used to be hung up on my figure, but it's a waste of time. I don't believe in diets.…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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It is a strange trade that of advocacy. Your intellect, your highest heavenly gift is hung up in the shop…
— Thomas Carlyle
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If you are a nurturing mother, and a good one, you can go to play groups, sit on the floor…
— Tori Amos
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I have encountered riotous mobs and have been hung in effigy, but my motto is: Men's rights are nothing more.…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Children say that people are hung sometimes for speaking the truth.
— Joan of Arc
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It was a pleasant cafe, warm and clean and friendly, and I hung up my old water-proof on the coat…
— Ernest Hemingway
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They [slaves] have stabbed themselves for freedom-jumped into the waves for freedom-starved for freedom-fought like very tigers for freedom! But…
— Lydia M. Child
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I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.
— Rodney Dangerfield
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