"Yet if there's no reason to live without……" — Lionel Shriver
"Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is simply to transfer the onus of purpose to the next generation; the displacements amounts to a cowardly and potentially infinite delay. Your children's answer, presumably, will be to procreate as well, and in doing so to distract themselves, to foist their own aimlessness onto their offspring."
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Lionel Shriver
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66 Quotes by Lionel Shriver
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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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