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 did it for a living, made a career out of it, but now I've turned it into somewhat of a hobby.
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To be a winner of that, and to fall in the long line of traditional great backs at USC, to have your name in perpetuity, the fact that your parents are like icons... that's the greatest thing.
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The need for some venture of faith still remains; one must stake one's life upon something.
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Sin does not stop God's grace from flowing, but God's grace will stop sin.
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New York walking isn't exercise: it's a continually showing make-your-own movie.
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We probably give newspaper columnists too much weight.
