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Time itself made all things rare.
Lionel Shriver
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Lionel Shriver
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: May 18
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Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
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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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That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
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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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Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.
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Everything people do that doesn’t work has to be somebody else’s fault. Next time you know, geezers’ll be suing the government for getting old and kids’ll be taking their mommies to court because they came out ugly.
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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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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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For the living, death is thievery.
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But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.
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Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.
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Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
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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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it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.
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Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
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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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I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.
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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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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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Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .
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A boy is a dangerous animal.
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