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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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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The only person that I want to love me is my wife.
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The silence holds with its gloved hand the wild hawk of the mind.
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I have no idea of what it's going to look like when I start a piece. Making art is like having a relationship. You want to bring in some ideas, but if you don't allow it to develop naturally and speak to you as it develops, you end up imposing and projecting upon it.
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We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.
