"The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles……" — Lionel Shriver
"The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity."
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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 Consoles Quotes
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Day by day, we are becoming what we shall be eternally. The spirit who convicts us is also the spirit…
— Charles Spurgeon
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The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself…
— Oscar Wilde
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Woman makes half the sorrows which she boasts the privilege to sooth. Woman consoles us, it is true, while we…
— Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton
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The architecture we remember is that which never consoles or comforts us.
— Peter Eisenman
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Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why…
— Georges Bernanos
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Old people are fond of giving good advice; it consoles them for no longer being capable of setting a bad…
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Everybody's saturated with the marketing hype of next-generation consoles. They are wonderful, but the truth is that they are as…
— John Carmack
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Since it is likely that, being men, they would sin every day, St. Paul consoles his hearers by saying 'renew…
— Saint John Chrysostom
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The cardinals have elected me, a simple and humble worker in the Lords vineyard. The fact that the Lord can…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A wise Providence consoles our present afflictions by joys borrowed from the future.
— Hosea Ballou
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I suppose I do believe that the greatest art consoles a wound that it creates, that art can give you…
— Christian Wiman
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As a result, we will continue to see more innovation on the Internet and on mobile phones than on consoles.
— Trip Hawkins
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