What did Lionel Shriver mean by: The good life doesn’t knock on the door. Joy is a job. - Lionel Shriver Author · USA Copy
+ Size is relative. If everyone is fat, no-one is fat Feraz Zeid, June 27, 2023December 12, 2023, Lionel Shriver, Relative, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ Notoriety is cheap. It’s just easier to get noticed by doing something bad. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Easier, Notoriety, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ …hoarders of guilty secrets are inevitably consumed with appearances. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Appearance, Guilty, Secret, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ It’s far less important to me to be liked these days than to be understood. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Important, These Days, Understood, 0 - Lionel Shriver Author · USA
+ People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment. Feraz Zeid, January 14, 2024January 14, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Attachment, Steps, 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
+ Only a country that feels invulnerable can afford political turmoil as entertainment. Feraz Zeid, January 13, 2024January 13, 2024, Lionel Shriver, Country, Entertainment, Political, 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 composer opens the cage door for arithmetic, the draftsman gives geometry its freedom. - Jean Cocteau Artist · France
You can’t make an architect. But you can open the doors and windows toward the light as you see it. - Frank Lloyd Wright Architect · USA
I understood immediately that to get success I had to make for the front door, not for the back one. - Jean Gabin
The Painter who seeks popularity in Art closes the door upon his own genius. - Washington Allston Painter · USA
For an instant God opens his door and His orchestra plays the Fifth Symphony. - Jean Sibelius Composer · Finland
Time-wasting activities are the dessert. Oftentimes discoveries are made through the back door. - Jean Wilson Author
Books and doors are the same thing. You open them, and you go through into another world. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
Our own front door can be a wonderful thing, or a sight we dread; rarely is it only a door. - Jeanette Winterson Author · England
