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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
Journalist
Novelist
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Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
Time
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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
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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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The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
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Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
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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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Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.
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My own apathy is bone chilling.
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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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No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.
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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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I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
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Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
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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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Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.
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The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.
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I have never in all my life considered you other people.
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...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
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