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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.

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
Easy
Every
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Damned
Never
Credit
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My own apathy is bone chilling.
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Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
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But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
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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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Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.
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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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