Lionel Shriver Quotes

By stereotyping my work's audience as self-involved and prissy, women-only packaging also insults my readers, who could all testify that trussing up my novels as sweet, girly, and soft is like stuffing a Rottweiler in a dress.

Lionel Shriver

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As someone who has spent a lot of her career as an investigative reporter, I'll confess that a frustration of mine has always been that so much investigative journalism involves a dissection of events in the past.

Jill Abramson

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Working hard to earn more money and then giving it away in higher taxes isn't financially intelligent, even if you do put some of it into a retirement account.

Robert Kiyosaki

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Now, I was the Summer Concert guy. I played every Summer concert there was.

John Sebastian

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Love in all eight tones and all five semitones of the word's full octave.

Stephen Fry

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It would absolutely suck if you paid a few bucks for a book only to find that on the first page it said, 'Once upon a time they all lived happily ever after' and the rest of the book was blank.

Simon Travaglia

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We are all at the center of our own narrative, but it's a narrative that changes every time we retell it.

Ruth Ware

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I took it very seriously and got very far with it. I was pretty much on a high level when I arrived.

Miroslav Vitous

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Myself, Marion Jones and Michael Johnson all got married on the same day because it was the only point on the athletics' schedule we could fit in. October 3, 1998.

Ato Boldon

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If we do away with semi-colons, parentheses and much else, we will lose all music, nuance and subtlety in communication - and end up shouting at one another in block capitals.

Pico Iyer

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I've got more than 600 pairs of Ray-Ban sunglasses, from 1950s originals to newer models. I have them on the wall like opticians do so I can pick out a pair that goes with my outfit. I had around 30 pairs, then my husband Rainer started getting them for me as birthday and Christmas gifts.

Suzi Quatro

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I was probably 11 by the time I saw a movie.

Peter Gallagher

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The Trump team recognizes the importance of the House Freedom Caucus.

Scott DesJarlais

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