"How lucky we are, when we're spared what…" — Lionel Shriver

"How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!"

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66 Quotes by Lionel Shriver

Lionel Shriver has 66 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned…
In the big picture I write for an audience of people I've never met. By the final draft I'm looking…
We need to recognise that slowing population growth is one of the most cost-effective and reliable ways of easing pressure…
Time itself made all things rare.
When you've been afraid of something for long enough and it comes to pass, the terrible thing is a release.…
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained,…
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the…
...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to…
You were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not…
There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain.... Unlike…
Now, bitterly, with one sweep of the front door, the compassion was spent. To the degree that Lawrence's face was…
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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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