"I never, ever took you for granted. We……" — Lionel Shriver
"I never, ever took you for granted. We met too late for that; I was nearly thirty-three by then, and my past without you was too stark and insistent for me to find the miracle of companionship ordinary."
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Lionel Shriver
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66 Quotes by Lionel Shriver
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Time itself made all things rare.
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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 were ambitious - for your life, what it was like when you woke up in the morning, and not…
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More Companionship Quotes
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Accident counts for as much in companionship as in marriage.
— Henry Adams
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Religion kept some of my relatives alive, because it was all they had. If they hadn't had some hope of…
— Octavia Butler
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If I could always read, I should never feel the want of company.
— Lord Byron
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There is not enough celebration of companionship. Relationships aren't just about eroticism and sexuality.
— Francesca Annis
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Golf is 20 percent mechanics and technique. The other 80 pecent is philosophy, humor, tragedy, romance, melodrama, companionship, camaraderie, cussedness…
— Grantland Rice
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Robots will play an important role in providing physical assistance and even companionship for the elderly.
— Bill Gates
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...the tale that's told for no other reason but companionship, which is another (and my favorite) definition of literature, the…
— Jack Kerouac
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To Yesterday's Companionship and Tomorrow's Reunion.
— Rita Hayworth
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We're lonely, but we're afraid of intimacy. And so from social networks to sociable robots, we're designing technologies that will…
— Sherry Turkle
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the universe is under the control of a loving purpose, and that in the struggle for righteousness man has cosmic…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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It is but a step from companionship to slavery when one associates with vice.
— Hosea Ballou
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When people are lonely they stoop to any companionship.
— Lew Wallace
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