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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
Writer
Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
Margaret Shriver
Rare
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...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever who worry what you think of them. You can really only punish people who are already a little bit good.
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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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Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.
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I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.
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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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That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
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Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
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A boy is a dangerous animal.
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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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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
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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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I have never in all my life considered you other people.
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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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You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
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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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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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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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The secret is that there is no secret.
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