"I am vain, or once was, and one……" — Lionel Shriver
"I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not."
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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 Feign Quotes
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one of 32 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Hold out baits to entice the enemy. Feign disorder, and crush him.
— Sun Tzu
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All warfare is based on deception. Therefore, when capable, feign incapacity; when active, inactivity. When near, make it appear that…
— Sun Tzu
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I am tired of the superficial smiles that adorn the many ghouls among us. I am tired of the righteous…
— Corey Taylor
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The soul comes from without into the human body, as into a temporary abode, and it goes out of it…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There rise her timeless capitals of empires daily born, whose plinths are laid at midnight and whose streets are packed…
— Rudyard Kipling
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Tis sometimes the height of wisdom to feign stupidity.
— Cato the Elder
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My only means of self defense is to wiggle my eye and feign being a salamander. It has saved my…
— Thom Yorke
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Some people mistake weakness for tact. If they are silent when they ought to speak and so feign an agreement…
— Frank Medlicott
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If U.S. foreign policy results in massive death and destruction abroad, we cannot feign innocence when some of that destruction…
— Ward Churchill
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It is true that some secluded intellectuals in their esoteric circles talk differently. They proclaim the priority of what they…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Consider the trivial but revealing hallmarks of urban hipsterdom: faux vintage photography, the handlebar mustache, and vinyl record players all…
— Peter Thiel
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The writer cannot abandon himself simply to inspiration, and feign innocence vis a vis language, because language is never innocent.
— Juan Goytisolo
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