What did Lionel Shriver mean by: For that matter, thinking of one’s self as exceptional is probably more the rule than not. - Lionel Shriver Author · USA Copy
+ You can’t be stylish and petty at the same time. Feraz Zeid, August 15, 2023December 12, 2023, Lionel Shriver, Petty, Stylish, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ How lucky we are, when we’re spared what we think we want! Feraz Zeid, September 26, 2023December 26, 2023, Lionel Shriver, Lucky, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ I was mortified by the prospect of becoming hopelessly trapped in someone else’s story. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Becoming, Stories, Trapped, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ Expectations are dangerous when they are both too high and unformed. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Dangerous, Expectations, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ The secret is that there is no secret. Feraz Zeid, October 24, 2023December 26, 2023, Lionel Shriver, Secret, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ Maybe the greatest favour a spouse can tender is to overlook what you can’t. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Favour, Spouse, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ It’s an apathy so absolute that it’s like a hole you might fall in. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Apathy, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ So many stories are determined before they start. Feraz Zeid, August 24, 2023December 24, 2023, Lionel Shriver, determined, Stories, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
The constancy of the wise is only the art of keeping disquietude to one’s self. Explain - François de La Rochefoucauld Writer · France
The most amiable people are those who least wound the self-love of others. Explain - Jean de la Bruyere Writer · France
If self-knowledge is the road to virtue, so is virtue still more the road to self-knowledge. - Jean Paul Writer · Germany
Our self-love can be resigned to the sacrifice of everything but itself. - Jean-Francois de La Harpe Playwright · France
That’s what existence means: draining one’s own self dry without the sense of thirst. Explain - Jean-Paul Sartre Philosopher · France
There are so many separate selves; no one who writes creatively hasn’t felt that. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Writing has to have a great deal of certainty and self-assurance, but it’s not arrogant. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
