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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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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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I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
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The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
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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 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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That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
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But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
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Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
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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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...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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