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Lionel Shriver Quotes

American - Journalist | May 18, 1957 -

In the public mind, an investment banker is no longer conservative; he's a risk taker, a gambler in high stakes, not to mention a thief. These people are dangerous - deliciously so.

People Mind Dangerous Investment He

Ever since Hiroshima, we've been faced with the depressing fact that you cannot un-invent something.

You Hiroshima Depressing Something

As a child, I was always a sucker for anything in miniature, and it didn't have to be a dress: a desk, a Matchbox truck. Perhaps a childhood attraction to shrunken but compellingly realistic facsimiles is commonplace, if only because children themselves are compellingly realistic facsimiles of the giants who rule their world.

Children Childhood Dress Child Truck

While one can't always begrudge the wealth of people who have at least produced something of value, the rich of the financial world don't make anything but more money. They're not creative, aside from, perhaps, in accounting.

Money Creative Value People World

In my country, we're sufficiently consumed by the concept of happiness that the right to its pursuit is enshrined in the Declaration of Independence. But what is happiness?

Happiness Independence Country Right

Life's most underrated emotion is self-pity.

Life Emotion Self-Pity Underrated

'The Feminine Mystique' goads me to gratitude that, thanks to forerunners like Betty Friedan, I've had the opportunity to pursue a career.

Opportunity Gratitude Me Career Like

I owe thanks to a thoughtful, sophisticated readership hungry for challenging subject matter, for honest portrayals of parenthood, and for fiction whose meaning is neither obvious nor morally pat.

Meaning Thoughtful Matter Hungry

The dumbest childhood vow I ever made was to finish every book I started.

Childhood Book Finish Started Made

Authors are free to ignore their editors' advice. I often avail myself of this veto power - sometimes out of a pigheadedness for which I'll pay the price.

Power Myself Free Advice Ignore Pay

I read 'The Bell Jar' as an adolescent and, like most teenagers, had no problem identifying with a young woman who had everything going for her - looks, talent, opportunity, with her 'whole life ahead of her,' yadda, yadda, yadda - yet was spiraling into misery.

Life Opportunity Woman Talent Young

In economics, 'competitiveness' does not describe Barack Obama's insistence on not only being president of the U.S. but also beating his staff at bowling.

Economics President Competitiveness

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