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Time itself made all things rare.
— Lionel Shriver
My parents were second cousins. That is enough to explain all of my peculiarities.
— Sargent Shriver
So many stories are determined before they start.
— Lionel Shriver
I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed.
— Sargent Shriver
It is always difficult to impress the ignorant.
— Lionel Shriver
One of us could always get pancreatic cancer," you said pleasantly.
— Lionel Shriver
With Maria Shriver, he raised four fantastic children. In the wake of a scandal he brought upon himself, he tried to keep his family together.
— Arnold Schwarzenegger
Part of what Special Olympics is trying to do is break down stereotypes that still exist for people. There is still a lot of fear.
— Maria Shriver
Beware of what "everybody says".
— Lionel Shriver
The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive illusion of productivity.
— Lionel Shriver
Just to travel is rather boring, but to travel with a purpose is educational and exciting.
— Sargent Shriver
One of the things Mr. Kennedy taught me was that in laying out a new project, you shouldn't try to cope with every little problem.
— Sargent Shriver
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
— Sargent Shriver
I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else's story.
— Lionel Shriver
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.
— Lionel Shriver
What we heard loud and clear is that the Battle Between the Sexes is over. It was a draw. Now we're engaged in Negotiation Between the Sexes.
— Maria Shriver
So annihilation is a kind of laziness. But it still provides the satisfactions of agency: I wreck, therefore I am.
— Lionel Shriver
Frankly, the reason why lawyers were compensated so lavishly was that they were paid to attend to the most stultifying aspects of modern life.
— Lionel Shriver
Art is fundamental, unique to each of us ... Even in difficult economic times - especially in difficult economic times, the arts are essential.
— Maria Shriver
Whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed.
— Lionel Shriver
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
The love and laughter are what you need most in your life. They'll fill out all the potholes in the road.
— Maria Shriver
When the world is so complicated, the simple gift of friendship is within all of our hands.
— Maria Shriver
My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another.
— Sargent Shriver
The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should.
— Sargent Shriver
Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.
— Lionel Shriver
Worse, the deadly accuracy of filial faultfinding is facilitated by access, by trust, by willing disclosure, and so constitutes a double betrayal.
— Lionel Shriver
Was our life together that unbearable?
— Lionel Shriver
The only genuine elite is the elite of those men and women who gave their lives to justice and charity.
— Sargent Shriver
Bur Armenians have a talent for sorrow.
— Lionel Shriver
I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system.
— Sargent Shriver
The only way my head was going truly somewhere else was to travel to a different life and not a different airport.
— Lionel Shriver
Any idealist who tries to join the Peace Corps must realize he is not going to change the world overnight.
— Sargent Shriver
Kevin was a shell game in which all three cups were empty.
— Lionel Shriver
Plots set in the future are about what people fear in the present.
— Lionel Shriver
Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat
— Lionel Shriver
How lucky we are, when we are spared what we think we want!
— Lionel Shriver
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.
— Lionel Shriver
Never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.
— Lionel Shriver
But too strictly observed, most sacraments grow hollow.
— Lionel Shriver
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.
— Lionel Shriver
I never met my Uncle Jack. My mom was six months pregnant with me when he died. But I knew his wife and two kids very well.
— Mark Shriver
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.
— Lionel Shriver
Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who's in them .
— Lionel Shriver
You can spend the rest of your life trying to figure out what other people expect from you, or you can make a decision to let that all go.
— Maria Shriver
My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.
— Lionel Shriver
Time hangs off me like molting skin.
— Lionel Shriver
Violence is anything an airplane can do to a cloud
— Lionel Shriver
Dad was joyful until the day he died, and I think that joy was deeply rooted in his love affair with God.
— Mark Shriver
my mother sees chaos biting at her doorstep, while the rest of us inhabit a fabricated playscape whose benevolence is a collective delusion.
— Lionel Shriver
He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned.
— Sargent Shriver
Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability.
— Sargent Shriver
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.
— Lionel Shriver
Hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances.
— Lionel Shriver
The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world.
— Sargent Shriver
Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment.
— Lionel Shriver
Your life is like a mosaic, a puzzle. You have to figure out where the pieces go and put them together for yourself.
— Maria Shriver
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.
— Lionel Shriver
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.
— Lionel Shriver
I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals.
— Sargent Shriver
You can blame your mother, and she can blame hers. Leastways sooner or later it's the fault of somebody who's dead.
— Lionel Shriver
The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
— Sargent Shriver
It is not what you get out of life that counts. It's what you give and what is given from the heart.
— Sargent Shriver
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.
— Lionel Shriver
Every family struggles with different things, and everybody struggles with different things.
— Mark Shriver
FAILING IS A PART OF LEARNING.
— Maria Shriver
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.
— Lionel Shriver
Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't.
— Lionel Shriver
Peace requires the simple but powerful recognition that what we have in common as human beings is more important and crucial than what divides us.
— Sargent Shriver
Incredibly, the self-starved never appear capable of taking any pleasure in the very vessel for which they've sacrificed.
— Lionel Shriver
Nothing is interesting if you are not interested.
— Lionel Shriver
He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.
— Lionel Shriver
If education does not create a need for the best in life, then we are stuck in an undemocratic, rigid caste society.
— Sargent Shriver
Just cause you get used to something doesn't mean you like it." He added, snapping the magenta, "You're used to me.
— Lionel Shriver
I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs.
— Sargent Shriver
It's queer how the thing what attracted you to someone is the same as what you come to despise about them
— Lionel Shriver
You restored me to the concept of home.
— Lionel Shriver
Only the untouched, the well-fed and contented, could possibly covet suffering like a designer jacket.
— Lionel Shriver
In a country that doesn't discriminate between fame and infamy, the latter presents itself as plainly more achievable.
— Lionel Shriver
My own apathy is bone chilling.
— Lionel Shriver
I had had a father whose shoes I could never fill, against whom I would never measure up; yet, I felt no pressure do so.
— Mark Shriver
It's as if your money, by conceit inexhaustible, isn't real, so your generosity isn't real, either.
— Lionel Shriver
Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are nowhere exactly.
— Lionel Shriver
They had no comprehension of why anyone would seek out a film with an unhappy ending or buy a painting that wasn't pretty.
— Lionel Shriver
Do the best you can, and then to hell with it!
— Eunice Kennedy Shriver
How lucky we are, when we're spared what we think we want!
— Lionel Shriver