Lionel Shriver Quotes
Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.
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Don't send funny greeting cards on birthdays or at Christmas. Save them for funerals, when their cheery effect is needed.
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Without philosophy, history is always for me dead and dumb.
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I work so hard, but... everything just goes my way! It's insane!
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I'd wanted to be famous for as long as I could remember.
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I love my boys very much. I want only the best for them and am committed to being a devoted father.
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People tried to make me something that I wasn't at the beginning of my career.
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If you care about injustice, and if you care about freedom, and you care about human rights, then you care about them everywhere.
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I figured out early on what I wanted to do.
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I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.
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My wife watches me like a hawk.
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Stand firm in your refusal to remain conscious during algebra. In real life, I assure you, there is no such thing as algebra.
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I like second chances. I've given people second chances. You have fall-outs with friends, and forgiveness is a great thing to have. It's not easy to forgive. I definitely don't forget, but I do forgive.
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For me life is a challenge. And it will be a challenge if I live to be 100 or if I get to be a trillionaire.
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The prevailing system of management has crushed fun out of the workplace.
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Souffles don't deserve their reputation as potential disasters.
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A woman is the only thing I am afraid of that I know will not hurt me.
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I was, like, a really embarrassing, precocious child.
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People like Pete Peterson, the former secretary of commerce and Blackstone and titan of Wall Street, etc., has been writing books for years about the debt and deficit.
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My idea is simply - is very simple - is that the books of poetry should be published in far greater volume and be distributed in far greater volume, in far more substantial manner. You can sell in supermarkets very cheaply. In paperbacks. You can sell in drugstores.
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Learn to play the drums. The world needs more girl drummers. The world needs your wild, pounding, dreaming heart.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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You are a lover of your own experience ... not of me ... you turn to me to feel ur own emotion
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Perhaps scientists will eventually discover that we are all clockwork bunnies, and our experience of volition is an electro-chemical illusion.
