Lionel Shriver Short Quotes

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It is always difficult to impress the ignorant.

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Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.

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Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them.

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Whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.

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It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.

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I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.

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Hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.

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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

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But indifference would ultimately commend itself as a devastating weapon.

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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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That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.

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It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

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I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

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I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

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Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.

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The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.

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I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

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For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

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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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Half an ear cocked, something in me, all night, every night, is waiting for you to come home.

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Some people coddle their own afflictions the way others spoil small pedigreed dogs with cans of pate.

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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 only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.

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In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.

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Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.

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