"The existence of other people is essentially awkward." — Lionel Shriver
"The existence of other people is essentially awkward."
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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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More Awkward Quotes
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In high school, I was so painfully self-aware that how I thought of myself was probably very different from what…
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Everyone is like a butterfly, they start out ugly and awkward and then morph into beautiful graceful butterflies that everyone…
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Mere bashfulness without merit is awkwardness.
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Every therapeutic cure, and still more, any awkward attempt to show the patient the truth, tears him from the cradle…
— Alfred Adler
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I must say, I don't feel very qualified to be a pop star. I feel very awkward at times in…
— Edward de Bono
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Sometimes, you can not click with somebody, and it can feel awkward.
— Jeff Bridges
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I don't like to fly. I've never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent…
— Sandra Bullock
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I am gennerally understood tho I do not use that awkward squad of pointings called commas colons semicolons etc.
— John Clare
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For TV you also get those pre-interviews when researchers ask you what you're going to say. The pre-interview drives me…
— Jarvis Cocker
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Hearing my songs in public freaks me out a bit. There was one restaurant I really liked in L.A., but…
— Fiona Apple
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I think sports gave me the first place where this awkward girl could feel comfortable in my own skin. I…
— Teri McKeever
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If Christians were Christians, there would be no anti-Semitism. Jesus was a Jew. There is nothing that the ordinary Christian…
— John Haynes Holmes
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