"I was mortified by the prospect of becoming……" — Lionel Shriver
"I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story."
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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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Becoming emancipated at 14, my life wasn't normal. I didn't have to go to school, so I didn't. I was…
— Drew Barrymore
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Most success springs from an obstacle or failure. I became a cartoonist largely because I failed in my goal of…
— Scott Adams
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A Christian is nothing but a sinful man who has put himself to school for Christ for the honest purpose…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Becoming a leader is synonymous with becoming yourself. It is precisely that simple, and it is also that difficult.
— Warren G. Bennis
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Taking charge of your own learning is a part of taking charge of your life, which is the sine qua…
— Warren G. Bennis
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Becoming Christlike is a lifetime pursuit and very often involves growth and change that is slow, almost imperceptible.
— Ezra Taft Benson
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Every democracy is constructed day-to-day. And the electoral process reduces and minimalizes every single aspect of human complexity. We're putting…
— Gael Garcia Bernal
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Evil is only imperfection, that which is not complete, which is becoming, but has not yet found its end.
— Annie Besant
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Doubt, indulged and cherished, is in danger of becoming denial; but if honest, and bent on thorough investigation, it may…
— Ambrose Bierce
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