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Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

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
Teaspoon
Teaspoons
Hole
Holes
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I have never in all my life considered you other people.
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Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.
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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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Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.
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Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and kids’ll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.
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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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You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
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Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.
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Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .
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Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
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Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.
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People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
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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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My own apathy is bone chilling.
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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
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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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We are not attracted to people because they are virtuous. In fact, there's something a little creepy about people who are too good. There is a big draw to people who are successful at breaking the rules. That means we end up admiring a lot of people that we think we shouldn't.
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