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Lionel Shriver Quotes
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The existence of other people is essentially awkward (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
It isn’t very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
For that matter, thinking of one’s self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
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 (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
Now that children don’t till your fields or take you in when you’re incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it’s amazing that with the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
Reading time is precious. Don’t waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
I suppose that’s a common conceit, that you’ve already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, make you safe (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn’t tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
In a country that doesn’t discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
A lot of people get so hung up on what they can’t have that they don’t think for a second about whether they really want it (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
It’s far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn’t just naive it’s a vanity (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
Giving anyone anything takes courage, since so many presents backfire. A gift conspicuously at odds with your tastes serves only to betray that the benefactor has no earthly clue who you are (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
... You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
... some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating (Lionel Shriver Quotes)
A successful lie cannot be brought into this world and capriciously abandoned; like any committed relationship, it must be maintained, and with far more devotion than the truth, which carries on being carelessly true without any help (Lionel Shriver Quotes)