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• What is cool changes; that there is such a thing as cool is immutable.

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• I am in flight from my story every day, and it dogs me like a faithful stray.

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• Time itself makes all things rare.

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• Discomfort begets discomfort in others.

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• The cardboard bookcase of her character had already collapsed under the strain.

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• A carpet of despair which lay underneath the levels of fury.

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• And one of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

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• Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who’s in them.

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• It is never persuasive to argue that you are not the kind of person who does what you are actually doing.

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• Never lie about my age because I want credit for every damned year.

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• You restored me to the concept of home.

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• Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can’t.

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• So many stories are determined before they start.

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

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• Time itself made all things rare.

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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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• The secret is that there is no secret.

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• I suppose that’s a common conceit, that you’ve already been so damaged that damage itself in its totality makes you safe.

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• I have never in all my life considered you other people.

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• That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.

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Lionel Shriver (37)

Birth:	18th May, 1957
Nationality:	American, British
Profession:	Journalist, Novelist

About

Shriver was educated at Barnard College, Columbia University. She has lived in Nairobi, Bangkok and Belfast, and currently in London.

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Births

• 1958 - Will Sergeant
• 1987 - Brooklyn Decker
• 1939 - Alan Ayckbourn
• 1971 - Shannen Doherty
• 1971 - Nicholas Brendon

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• 1748 - William Kent
• 1933 - Adelbert Ames
• 1989 - Sugar Ray Robinson
• 1878 - William M. Tweed
• 2006 - William Sloane Coffin