Lionel Shriver Quotes
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If it were not for the fact that editors have become so timorous in these politically correct times, I would probably have a greater readership than I have.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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If the word has the potency to revive and make us free, it has also the power to blind, imprison, and destroy.
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I think everyone needs to be a role model, period.
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There is simply no limitation on the realistic power of the U.N. over us.
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I won't go to England because they won't let my dog in.
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When we were on 'The X Factor,' we didn't realize how overnight the fame thing was. We didn't really understand it until we went on a shopping trip. It was like Week 7 or 8 of the show. We went with a few other contestants and there were loads of people, packed.
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It seems to me that we often commit ourselves wholly to something while knowing almost nothing concrete about it. Another word for that, I suppose, is 'faith.'
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Wide diversification is only required when investors do not understand what they are doing.
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Even though I believe in mass social movements, I'm uncomfortable in crowds.
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Crede mihi, bene qui latuit bene vixit, et intraFortunam debet quisque manere suam.
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'It's a little Anxious,' he said to himself, 'to be a Very Small Animal Entirely Surrounded by Water.'
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The Self is only one. Do you feel hurt if you blame yourself or scorn yourself for your errors? If you hold the Self there is no second person to scorn you. When you see the world you have lost hold of the Self. On the contrary, hold the Self and the world will not appear.
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The colors...oh, I see the most fantastic things. Do you realize when people just close their eyes what they see? It's unbelievable. Colors and things, forms of every sort. I wonder if that happens for everybody?
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I'm not the man to baulk at a low smell,I’m not the man to insist on asphodel.This sounds like a He-fellow, don’t you think?It sounds like that. I belch, I bawl, I drink.
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Leader of the Chorus: An insult directed at the wicked is not to be censured; on the contrary, the honest man, if he has sense, can only applaud. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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The Obama representatives like Robert Gibbs attack people viciously, but people like me will not be silent and will answer them back.
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Cara was six years younger. She slept in my bed for years.
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I have no regrets in going into politics or leaving the Tollywood for a while.
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I was a shy, quiet kid. I was happiest playing by myself with my toys, rather than hanging around people.
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Not all the arts of diplomacy are learned solely in its practice. There are other exercise yards.'
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Florida will be gone altogether, the whole damned place, in not too long.
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[Short Talk on Sylvia Plath] Did you see her mother on television? She said plain, burned things. She said I thought it an excellent poem but it hurt me. She did not say jungle fear. She did not say jungle hatred wild jungle weeping chop it back chop it. She said self-government she said end of the road. She did not say humming in the middle of the air what you came for chop.
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We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.
