Lionel Shriver Quotes - Page 2

• Time itself made all things rare.

  Lionel Shriver

  Self Made, Made, All Things

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.37, Counterpoint Press

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• I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.

  Lionel Shriver

  Stories, Becoming, Trapped

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.32, Counterpoint Press

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• Pero guardar secretos es una disciplina. Nunca me consideré un buen mentiroso, pero después de practicar un poco adopté el credo del prevaricador, según el cual uno no fabrica una mentira, sino que se casa con ella. Una mentira de éxito no puede traerse a este mundo y abandonarse caprichosamente; como cualquier relación comprometida, debe mantenerse, y con mucha más devoción que la verdad, que sigue siendo despreocupadamente cierta sin ninguna ayuda. Por el contrario, mi mentira me necesitaba tanto como yo a ella, y por eso exigía la constancia del matrimonio: Hasta que la muerte nos separe.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Liars, Successful

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press

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• [Los niños] habrían desordenado mi apartamento. En general, son desagradecidos. Me habrían quitado demasiado tiempo para escribir mis preciados libros.

  Lionel Shriver

  Niños, Libro, Escritura

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• I first foreswore motherhood when I was about eight years old. ... [Children] were annoying. We were loud and sneaky and broke things. As an eight-year-old, maybe I was simply mortified by the prospect of being saddled with myself.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Motherhood, Years

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• Mi propia apatía es escalofriante.

  Lionel Shriver

  Apathy, Chill, Bones

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.33, Counterpoint Press

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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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• No eleven-year-old has any real grasp of death. He doesn't have any real concept of other people--that they feel pain, even that they exist. And his own adult future isn't real to him, either. Makes it that much easier to throw away.

  Lionel Shriver

  Pain, Real, Years

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.367, Profile Books

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• The fact that my clothing has been visually available to other people I do not find upsetting. The body is another matter. It is mine; I have found it useful; but it is an avatar.

  Lionel Shriver

  People, Upset, Body

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• I seem to remember even from when I was very young that when you loved someone you also hated them for making you love them, since loving someone is so incredibly humiliating.

  Lionel Shriver

  Loving Someone, Remember, Young

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• Yet if there's no reason to live without a child, how could there be with one? To answer one life with a successive life is simply to transfer the onus of purpose to the next generation; the displacements amounts to a cowardly and potentially infinite delay. Your children's answer, presumably, will be to procreate as well, and in doing so to distract themselves, to foist their own aimlessness onto their offspring.

  Lionel Shriver

  Children, Generations, Purpose

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.255, Counterpoint Press

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• I have no end of failings as a mother, but I have always followed the rules.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mother, Failing, Ends

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.39, Counterpoint Press

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• The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.

  Lionel Shriver

  Jobs, Good Life, Doors

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.15, Counterpoint Press

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• Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat

  Lionel Shriver

  Size, Fats, Relative

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• I am vain, or once was, and one of my vanities was to feign that I was not.

  Lionel Shriver

  Vanity, Vain

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.26, Counterpoint Press

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• People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.

  Lionel Shriver

  Attachment, People, Steps

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.159, Counterpoint Press

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• The secret is that there is no secret.

  Lionel Shriver

  Secreto

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.379, Counterpoint Press

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• For that matter, thinking of one's self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not.

  Lionel Shriver

  Thinking, Self, Matter

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.78, Counterpoint Press

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• In the particular dwells the tawdry. In the conceptual dwells the grand, the transcendent, the everlasting. Earthly countries and single malignant boys can go to hell; the idea of countries and the idea of sons triumph for eternity.

  Lionel Shriver

  Country, Son, Boys

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.88, Counterpoint Press

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• Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed.

  Lionel Shriver

  Expectations, Dangerous

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• Besides, I'd heard too many Karen Carpenter tales at Gladstone PTA meetings, and they often took the form of boasts. The prestigious diagnosis of anorexia seemed much coveted not only by the students but by their mothers, who would compete over whose daughter ate less. No wonder the poor girls were a mess.

  Lionel Shriver

  Niña, Hija, Madre

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.301, Counterpoint Press

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• The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

  Lionel Shriver

  People, Awkward, Existence

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• You can't be stylish and petty at the same time.

  Lionel Shriver

  Stylish, Petty

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Puedes llamarlo inocencia, o puedes llamarlo credulidad, pero Celia cometió el error más común de las personas de buen corazón: asumió que todos los demás eran como ella.

  Lionel Shriver

  Mistake, Like Her, Innocence

  Lionel Shriver (2010). “We Need To Talk About Kevin”, p.273, Profile Books

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• Una mentira exitosa no puede ser traída a este mundo y abandonada caprichosamente; como cualquier relación comprometida, debe ser mantenida, y con mucha más devoción que la verdad, que sigue siendo descuidadamente verdadera sin ninguna ayuda.

  Lionel Shriver

  Lying, Successful, World

  Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.175, Counterpoint Press

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