"Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don't. If you're 'trying', you don't."

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Source : Lionel Shriver (2013). “Big Brother”, p.11, HarperCollins UK

Lionel Shriver

“When I was a kid, I remember playing hockey outside and whenever you did, you thought about playing for Finland vs. Sweden. Thats just the way it was.”
“I like doing the readings and the autographing, but the interviewing gets a little tedious because you get asked the same questions every day and sometimes three or four times a day.”
“So you never know who you touch. You never know how or when you'll have an impact, or how important your example can be to someone else" (20).”
“Of all the things a leader should fear, complacency heads the list.”
“We sit for a week and listen to an extraordinary amount of people talk about what they do in the intelligence world. It's pretty overwhelming.”
“When I started out, I wanted to have everything solved by the time I was 30. That didn't happen. Instead, I realized that the journey is the destination, that the work.”
“Man usually thinks liberty is the power of doing what he likes to do. That is license.”
“The cloning procedure is similar to IVF. The only difference is that the DNA of sperm and egg would be replaced by DNA from an adult cell. What law or principle - secular, humanist, or religious - says that one combination of genetic material in a flask is OK, but another is not?”

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