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Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.

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
Nothing
Trying
Like
Someone

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For the living, death is thievery.
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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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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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I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
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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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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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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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The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.
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A boy is a dangerous animal.
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Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.
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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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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 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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...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
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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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