"It's far less important to me to be……" — Lionel Shriver

"It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood."

— Lionel Shriver

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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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On the field, blacks have been able to be super giants. But, once our playing days are over, this is… — Hank Aaron
If my forgeries looked as bad as the CBS documents, it would have been 'Catch Me In Two Days'. — Frank Abagnale
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
I had a huge advantage when I started 50 years ago - my job was secure. I didn't have to… — David Attenborough
In the old days... it was a basic, cardinal fact that producers didn't have opinions. When I was producing natural… — David Attenborough
I was a supporter of the desire, in my section of Nigeria, to leave the federation because it was treated… — Chinua Achebe
The book that convinced me I wanted to be a writer was 'Crime and Punishment'. I put the thing down… — Paul Auster
On some summer days in New York City, the air hangs thickly visible, like the combined exhalations of eight million… — Diane Ackerman
You must pass your days in song. Let your whole life be a song. — Sai Baba
The Postal Service delivers mail six days a week to nearly 140 million addresses. Every year this number increases by… — Joe Baca
The Postal Service's unmatched ability to reach every household and business in America six days a week is a vital… — Joe Baca
It's too easy to do your own site to not have one these days. I guess everyone has one. — Sebastian Bach

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