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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
Lionel Shriver
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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
Journalist
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Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
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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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For the living, death is thievery.
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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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Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
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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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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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I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
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My own apathy is bone chilling.
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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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You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
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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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Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
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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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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 never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.
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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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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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