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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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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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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When The Temptations began, we wanted to be visual. So we did our own choreography and developed our own uniforms.
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As an undergraduate, I took a theology course titled Religion as Writing. If writing can be considered a form of faith, then inevitably doubt has to accompany it.
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I was an editor for supplemental math, science, and literature programs for the primary grades and became very well versed in elementary curriculum, particularly PreK-2.
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When you write a song, you don't ask if it's good or not, or if it's gonna sell. When you write a song, you ask whether you've reached deep inside your heart and whether it's honest.
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Being yourself is one of the greatest things you can possibly do. Being true to yourself.
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Jesuits encourage an intellectual rigor in a way that I like.
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Ambition is the way in which a vulgar man aspires.
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We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.
