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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
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Gastonia
North Carolina
Margaret Ann Shriver
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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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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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Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .
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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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That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
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...hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
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Desire is one of the burning experiences of human life.
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...whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
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A boy is a dangerous animal.
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We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved of the medical profession that seems to be a synonym for agony that isn't yours.
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Change is like that: you are no longer where you were you are not yet where you will get you are nowhere exactly.
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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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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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Time itself made all things rare.
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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.
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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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The existence of other people is essentially awkward.
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I have never in all my life considered you other people.
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