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

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Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.53, Counterpoint Press

Lionel Shriver

“Never interrupt me when I'm eating a banana.”

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“The best leaders... almost without exception and at every level, are master users of stories and symbols.”
“You're always with yourself, so you might as well enjoy the company.”
“I'm always nervous doing auditions - to be honest, I hate it. I always envy the actors who are so cool and cold-blooded when they go in for an audition, especially if it's for a part that you would really love to play.”
“When you're in prison, and we're left to our own devices, you're stripped of everything, and you really get to see who these people are, the good and the bad.”
“I think it is obscene that we should believe that we are entitled to end somebody's life, no matter what that person has supposedly done or not done.”

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“I think what I and most other sociologists of religion wrote in the 1960s about secularization was a mistake. Our underlying argument was that secularization and modernity go hand in hand. With more modernization comes more secularization”
“I don't think I've ever written anything even remotely naturalistic. The closest probably would be seen as 'Frankie and Johnny,' and that's only 'cause they eat a sandwich and make an omelet in act two. But it's a romantic fairy tale, and I'm very aware of that. I don't think it helps the actors in my plays to lose themselves in the reality of talking to another person. A good McNally actor always knows he's in a play with an audience.”

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