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It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away the veil of civilization that comes between us as much as it makes life possible. A poor substitute for the sort of passion we like to extol perhaps, but real love shares more in common with hatred and rage than it does with geniality or politeness.

Lionel Shriver's Popular Quotes

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

Lovers communicate not inside sentences, but between them. Passion lurks within interstice. It is grouting rather than bricks.

- Lionel Shriver

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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Though surely to avoid attachments for fear of loss is to avoid life.

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It's far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood.

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Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year.

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Now that children don't till your fields or take you in when you're incontinent, there is no sensible reason to have them, and it's amazing that with…

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...You can only subject people to anguish who have a conscience. You can only punish people who have hopes to frustrate or attachments to sever; who …

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Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon.

- Lionel Shriver