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A manuscript under way always gave me something to do; only while enduring the aimlessness between books was I truly glum.

~Lionel Shriver

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Clearly, freedom does not extend to the right to harm other people.

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Laws to protect 'public health' are potentially infinite, especially once they no longer have to be supported by any research whatsoever.

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

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For pity's sake, if you don't take a shine to a novel, there are loads more in the world; read something else. Continue suffering, and it's not the author's fault. It's yours.

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Reading time is precious. Don't waste it. Reading bad books, or books that are wrong for a certain time in your life, can dangerously turn you off the activity altogether.

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The sign that I don't like the book I'm reading is finding myself watching reruns of 'Come Dine With Me.'

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In the big picture, few of our careers live up to the dreams we nursed when we were young. In fact, one underside of success is that it's nearly always penultimate, and so every accomplishment merely raises the bar.

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Letting ourselves down in some fashion is such an integral part of daily life that the paucity of literature on the subject is baffling.

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I am bowled over by the massive number of remarkable people who face down the fact that no, they are not going to be film directors, famous artists, or billionaire entrepreneurs and still come out the other side as cheerful, decent, gracious human beings.

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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Journalist

Born: May 18th, 1957

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