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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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I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
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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 always difficult to impress the ignorant.
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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
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Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
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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 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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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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Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
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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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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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Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .
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...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
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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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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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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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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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