"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 the advent of effective contraception anyone chooses to reproduce at all."

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Source : Lionel Shriver (2011). “We Need to Talk about Kevin”, p.26, Counterpoint Press

Lionel Shriver

#Children Quotes #Fields Quotes #Advent Quotes

“When Kevin Brockmeier says, "Everything, given the possibility, would choose to be a song," I recognize the implicit truth of such a miracle. What can I say, I'm Irish, and we take naturally to that sort of thing.”

Source : Source: therumpus.net
“Controversy for the sake of controversy is sin. Controversy for the sake of truth is a divine command.”

Source : Walter Martin, Jill Martin Rische, Van Gorden Kurt (2008). “The Kingdom of the Occult”, p.677, Harper Collins
“Writing is not complete when you've added everything you could, but rather, when you've taken away everything that is not needed.”
“The objective is to do things well in London.”
“Are you motivated? Are you coherent? Is your intention aligned? Are your feet, tongue, heart and wallet congruent? That intention shines through.”

Source : "Entertainment exec Peter Guber". "The Tavis Smiley Show", www.pbs.org. April 15, 2011.
“Many women have made the mistake of changing their beliefs to accommodate their work; it must be the other way around. No circumstance is so unusual that it demands a double standard or separates us from our faith. No matter how fast the world changes, exemplary values must remain constant.”
“I do not believe in censorship, but I believe we already have censorship in what is called marketing theory, namely the only information we get in mainstream media is for profit.”
“Deep down, everybody wants to do what they want to be doing. They just feel that they can't.”

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