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The secret is that there is no secret.

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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...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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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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I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
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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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Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.
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I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
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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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Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.
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My own apathy is bone chilling.
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Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
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I have never in all my life considered you other people.
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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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...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
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The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.
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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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People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
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But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
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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.
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it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.
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For the living, death is thievery.
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