Lionel Shriver Quotes
Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.
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Intimate relationships are a gold mine for literature to explore, to understand, to describe.
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I'm involved in music and fashion a lot more than I used to be, so my style has definitely changed - for the better, of course. It's given me greater insight into what colours work, what looks good on camera, and what I feel comfortable in.
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Money is in some respects life's fire: it is a very excellent servant, but a terrible master.
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The planet will survive. Whether we get to be here and enjoy it, or enjoy life as we've known it, is what's questionable.
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You start to become successful, and everybody starts to drive your money train to the bank, and they're not thinking anymore about what you want as an artist or if any of that even matters to you. It genuinely upsets people in my life that I don't care about money, and that's not my problem.
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I didn't live at school, I lived where I could and studied what I enjoyed studying. I took what I wanted from that education but was making my first record at the same time. I don't know anyone from school. I was just leading a different life. I was really interested in writing and other things.
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It's a hard thing to imagine how somebody copes with grief and at the same time has to build a new life.
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Fashion is not about clothes, it is about a look.
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Making money is marvelous, and I love doing it, and I do it reasonably well, but it doesn't have the gripping vitality that you have when you deal with the happiness of human life and with human deprivation.
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I just try to live a really simple, natural life, because obviously, life has an impact on your voice.
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I consider the world, this Earth, to be like a school, and our life the classrooms.
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My life has been a whole series of accidents, some of them happy, some not.
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No matter what, you've got to always follow your passion in life and always keep learning.
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I like to look for patterns in science and life. It's what I do.
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Everything I've been through, everything I'm about to go through in my career and my life, if my family wasn't with me and didn't support me, it would be really tough.
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Love is the expansion of two natures in such fashion that each include the other, each is enriched by the other.
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To let the people know there was life beyond Shirley Dean, we decided to focus on voter registration; each day I set up my card table somewhere in the district, signed people up, and passed out noses.
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If you feel sick and tired of how things are in your life, chances are it's because you're making yourself sick and tired - by engaging in too many energy leaking things.
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I like to write about real-life topics, and I like to write about different walks of life.
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The beauty of love, as far as I'm concerned, is it makes you better. It makes you stronger. It gives you direction. It gives you understanding of what life is and what we've been given.
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In each verse, a decision awaits us, and we can't choose to close our eyes and let instinct work on its own. Poetic instinct consists of an alert tension.
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The first modern novel was already a product, even an expression, of negative criticism: 'Don Quixote' contains a quite explicit critique of the chivalric romance and its insufficiency to account for the way real life feels when you get up in the morning in 17th-century Spain.
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If I won a second Olympic title, maybe I would be tempted to go after a third.
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Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.
