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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
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Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
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No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.
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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.
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Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.
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The pediatrician must have thought me one of those neurotic mothers who craved distinction for her child but who in our civilization's latter-day degeneracy could only conceive of the exceptional in terms of deficiency or affliction.
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Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.
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...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
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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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Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.
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The secret is that there is no secret.
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So many stories are determined before they start.
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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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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
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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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People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
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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.
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...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
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That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
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