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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

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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
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Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.
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...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
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It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.
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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.
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Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.
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I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
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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. For in the belly of the badness there is no more fear.
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I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.
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A boy is a dangerous animal.
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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.
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Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.
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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.
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I didn't care about anything. And there's a freedom in apathy, a wild, dizzying liberation on which you can almost get drunk. You can do anything. Ask Kevin.
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Time itself made all things rare.
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Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
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But what's so great about being a perfectionist?... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.
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That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
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But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
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I have never in all my life considered you other people.
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