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...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

Lionel Shriver

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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Journalist
Novelist
Writer
Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
Consumed
Inevitably
Secrets
Guilty
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Hoarders
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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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Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.
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When Mexico enjoys an economic boom while the U.S. is in dire fiscal straights, it seemed perfectly credible that Mexico would not roll out the welcome mat for unemployed Americans.
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I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.
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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.
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...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.
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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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I have never in all my life considered you other people.
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[Children] would have messed up my apartment. In the main, they are ungrateful. They would have siphoned too much time away from the writing of my precious books.
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But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
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Time itself made all things rare.
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For women, marriages foreclosed often resulted in an accumulation of booty for men, these failed projects of implausible optimism were more likely to manifest themselves in material lack. It was hard to resist the metaphorical impression that women got to keep the past itself, whereas men were simply robbed of it.
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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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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
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We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.
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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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The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
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Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.
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Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .
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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
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