What did Lionel Shriver mean by: Got nothing to do with trying. You like someone, or you don’t. If you’re ‘trying’, you don’t. - Lionel Shriver Author · USA Copy
+ 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
+ …whenever a woman describes a man as sweet, the dalliance is doomed. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Doomed, Sweet, 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
+ Funny how you dig yourself into a hole by the teaspoon. Feraz Zeid, September 8, 2023December 24, 2023, Lionel Shriver, Holes, 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
+ Life is never easy so that is why I never lie about my age. I want credit for every damned year. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Inspiration, Lying, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ The discovery that heartbreak is indeed heartbreaking consoles us about our humanity. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Discovery, Heartbreaking, Human, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ Secrets bind and separate in strict accordance with who’s in them . Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Secret, Strict, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
I’ve taught, and the first thing I did when I taught art, was not to teach art. Explain - Louise Berliawsky Nevelson Sculptor · Ukraine
Appreciation of art is a moral erection, otherwise mere dilettantism. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Lying is the only art form that the public sanctions and instinctively prefers to reality. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
Whatever the world condemns you for, make it your own. It is yourself. Explain - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
The liabilities are always 100 percent good. It’s the assets you have to worry about. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
It’s stupid the way people extrapolate the past — and not slightly stupid, but massively stupid. Explain - Charlie Munger Business person
Film will only became an art when its materials are as inexpensive as pencil and paper. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
