Lionel Shriver Quotes
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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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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I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.
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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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Miniature golf, like billiards, is a game of angles. And, like billiards, most of the fun is in pretending you know what the hell you're doing. The worse you do, the more you have to laugh.
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When Lebanon started its resistance it was a small and divided country.
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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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ISIS is not at our doorstep. Illegal immigrants are not only at our doorstep, but millions of them are already through the door, murdering far more Americans than ISIS ever will.
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Memories, all those little experiences make up the fabric of our lives and on balance, I wouldn't want to erase any of them, tempting though it may be.
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I'm done with Everest. I did it three times, and I need to be good at that and be happy with it and focus on other climbs.
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Because the earth is not a product of labour it cannot have a value.
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Had Elijah Muhammad tried to introduce an orthodox form of Arab-oriented Islam, I doubt if he would have attracted 500 people, but he introduced a form of Islam that would communicate with the people he had to deal with. He was the king to those who had no king, and he was the messiah to those some people thought unworthy of a messiah.
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We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.
