"Funny how the nature of a normal day……" — Lionel Shriver
"Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade."
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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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The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution.
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The defiance of established authority, religious and secular, social and political, as a world-wide phenomenon may well one day be…
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
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For one swallow does not make a summer, nor does one day; and so too one day, or a short…
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For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to…
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We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People…
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I write the paragraph, then I'm crossing out, changing words, trying to improve it. When it seems more or less…
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People are so damned afraid that one day they might wake up and discover that they've grown old.
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Music - that's been my education. There's not a day that goes by that I take it for granted.
— Billie Joe Armstrong
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
— Karen Armstrong
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