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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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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
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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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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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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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Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.
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That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
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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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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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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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[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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I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.
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...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
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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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People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
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...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
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For the living, death is thievery.
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