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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 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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Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.
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Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can't.
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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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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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Though it may be more romantic to picture the bereaved as gaunt, I imagine you can grieve as efficiently with chocolates as with tap water.
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Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
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For the living, death is thievery.
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We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.
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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
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Time itself made all things rare.
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Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.
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So many stories are determined before they start.
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I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.
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...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
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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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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 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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Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.
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I have never in all my life considered you other people.
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