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Time itself made all things rare.
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So many stories are determined before they start.
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It is always difficult to impress the ignorant.
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One of us could always get pancreatic cancer," you said pleasantly.
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unto me a son was born, and I felt nothing.
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Beware of what "everybody says".
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Home is precisely what Kevin has taken from me.
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The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
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I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
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Desire was its own reward, and a rarer luxury than you'd think. You could sometimes buy what you wanted; you could never buy wanting it.
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So annihilation is a kind of laziness. But it still provides the satisfactions of agency: I wreck, therefore I am.
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Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of modern life.
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Orderliness readily slides to conformity over time.
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Whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
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I wondered why people ever tried to accomplish anything when attainment of every sort was inbuilt with the forlorn 'Well sowhat's next? — Lionel Shriver
I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself, in its totality, makes you feel safe.
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Discomfort begets discomfort in others.
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A boy is a dangerous animal.
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I was suffering from the delusion that it's the thought that counts.
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Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
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For Celia, her whole surround was animate, and each tapioca lump had a dense, nauseating little soul.
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How lucky we are, when we are spared what we think we want!
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Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
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There's no more doomed a struggle than a battle with the imaginary.
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He's one of those attorneys who think of the law as a game, not a morality play. I'm told that'd the kind you want.
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For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.
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Like most disguises, the cover-up was worse than honest flaw, a lesson I had yet to register on my own account.
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We shared a sympathetic look, mutually marveling that kids who commit grown-up crimes still have their little-boy sweet tooth.
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But what's so great about being a perfectionist? ... You do all this work, and then the stuff you've made just pisses you off.
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Fear is an isometric exercise
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The very insurmountability of the task, its very unattractiveness, was in the end what attracted me to it.
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They were determined to find something mechanically wrong with him - because broken machines are easier to fix.
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Built like an oak tree, against which I could pitch my pillow and read; mornings, I could curl into the crook of your branches.
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He wasn't mad, he was sad.
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The most sumptuous experience of ingestion is in-between: remembering the last bite and looking forward to the next one.
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People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
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You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.
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A well-constructed lie is assembled largely from the alphabet blocks of fact, which will as easily make a pyramid as a platform.
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So when I said I'd miss him, I meant I would miss what we had not experienced, and I don't know what that's called: nostalgia for what didn't happen.
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The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job. — Lionel Shriver
That it was valuable rather than merely expensive. Ramsey's
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The liberation of adulthood as we'd conceived it from below was a pipe-dream; with oppressors deposed we became our own tyrants.
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Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.
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I believe the impulse to write comes out of a failure to communicate by any other means.
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Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present.
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I long ago gave up defending humanity. It's beyond me on most days to defend myself.
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The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity.
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A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.
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To a man and woman, all of her elderly patients had been surprised to be old - which Avery privately regarded as a serious failure to pay attention.
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Just cause you get used to something doesn't mean you like it." He added, snapping the magenta, "You're used to me.
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It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them
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Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket.
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In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
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My own apathy is bone chilling.
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It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either.
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Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.
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They had no comprehension of why anyone would seek out a film with an unhappy ending or buy a painting that wasn't pretty.
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How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
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Hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
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Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.
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Trying to be a good mother may be as distant from being a good mother as trying to have a good time is from truly having one.
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A lot of people get so hung up on what they can't have that they don't think for a second about whether they really want it.
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my mother sees chaos biting at her doorstep, while the rest of us inhabit a fabricated playscape whose benevolence is a collective delusion.
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You can blame your mother, and she can blame hers. Leastways sooner or later it's the fault of somebody who's dead.
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Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just naive it's a vanity.
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Casting my own eye down Fifth Avenue as my belly swelled, I would register with incredulity: Every one of these people came from a woman's cunt.
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Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.
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Bur Armenians have a talent for sorrow.
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But too strictly observed, most sacraments grow hollow.
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I mean when I was a kid, parents called the shots. Now I'm a parent, kids call the shots. So we get fucked coming and going. I can't believe this.
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The gap between most people's capacity to conjure beauty from scratch and to merely recognize it when they see it is the width of the Atlantic Ocean.
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Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .
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My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.
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Time hangs off me like molting skin.
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Violence is anything an airplane can do to a cloud
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Never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.
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Was our life together that unbearable?
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Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
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Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.
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Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.
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The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.
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You restored me to the concept of home.
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Incredibly, the self-starved never appear capable of taking any pleasure in the very vessel for which they've sacrificed.
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Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
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He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.
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