"People seem to get used to anything, and……" — Lionel Shriver
"People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment."
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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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The true basis of morality is utility; that is, the adaptation of our actions to the promotion of the general…
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Remember that in every single case in history the process of adaptation has been one of exceeding slowness. Do not…
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I'm not afraid to play ugly - look at 'Adaptation.' I looked like a turd that a cat had coughed…
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The problem with books, now that I've written one, is that the idea of adaptation is so much easier than…
— Nick Cave
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Regularity in the hours of rising and retiring, perseverance in exercise, adaptation of dress to the variations of climate, simple…
— Lord Chesterfield
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I think before 1997 is over, NATO will have taken giant strides in what's called adaptation, the discussions about bringing…
— Warren Christopher
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I wrote a screenplay for a 'Sweet Valley High' adaptation, and it's really amazing to me how many women who…
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There are three ways in which a ruler can bring misfortune on his army: By commanding the army to advance…
— Sun Tzu
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Monet's garden must be included with his works, because he combined the magic of an adaptation of nature with the…
— Georges Clemenceau
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Softness triumphs over hardness, feebleness over strength. What is more malleable is always superior over that which is immoveable. This…
— Laozi
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During periods of discontinuous, abrupt change, the essence of adaptation involves a keen sensitivity to what should be abandoned -…
— Peter Drucker
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It is not necessarily those lands which are the most fertile or most favored in climate that seem to me…
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