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Notoriety is cheap. It's just easier to get noticed by doing something bad.

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
Notoriety
Cheap
Noticed
Easier
Something

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it is always difficult to impress the ignorant.
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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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Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.
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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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Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .
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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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I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.
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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 secret is that there is no secret.
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