Quote by Lionel Shriver Download Open image ““I've found that people's generalizations are largely illuminating about themselves.”” — Lionel Shriver ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It's bad to make general statements about groups of people--there are always exceptions, and those exceptions are likely to be offended if they hear… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
“Everyone sees what you seem to be, few know what you really are; and those few do not dare take a stand against the… — Niccolò Machiavelli Copy Share Image
“To Generalize is to be an Idiot; To Particularize is the Alone Distinction of Merit.” — William Blake Copy Share Image
“I find few things more personally enriching than exploring the parameters of my own ignorance.” — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
“Everyone is striving to unite particulars and find at least some general sense in the general senselessness.” — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“Many of us have been disconnected with our own individualities, our true individualities.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“A great way to understand yourself is to seriously reflect on everything you find irritating in others.” — Kevin Kelly Copy Share Image
“You can tell a lot about individuals by how they treat the people they believe are beneath them.” — A.J. Mendez Brooks Copy Share Image
“We wonder how people can't see the most obvious things about themselves, yet we forget those people are us.” — Ezra Bayda Copy Share Image
“What you think about others is basically a declaration of what you think about yourself.” — Osho Copy Share Image
The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I’m a journalist, and journalists need news. Deprive them of it, and they go a bit barking. Deprive them of news long enough, and… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“One of the things I learned with Charles," said Gray carefully, "was that finding someone like you does not necessarily mean that either of… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“The idea is that you don't only have one destiny. Younger and younger, kids are pressed to decide what they want to do with… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
Oddly, for a book to do well merely because people like it is surprisingly rare. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk.” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.' — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
We speak often of 'destroying the planet' when what we mean is destroying its habitability for humans. — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
My agent had warned that, while a fine film would do my profile a world of good, a bad one wouldn't help me at… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“I think that's the biggest favor you can grant anyone, don't you? Permission to be dull. I know Henry will sometimes say something so… — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
“They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix. p303” — Lionel Shriver Copy Share Image
