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This business will get out of control. It will get out of control and we'll be lucky to live through it.

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Lionel Shriver

Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we age is to recite, not only to others but to ourselves, our own story.

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That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.

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The secret is that there is no secret.

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There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero, heroine, or villain. . . . Unlike the slight implications of quotidian dilemmas that confront the average citizen in other areas of life. . . the stakes in this realm could not be higher. For chances are that at some point along the line you will hold in your hands another person's heart. There is no greater responsibility on the planet. However you contend with this fragile organ, which pounds or seizes in accordance with your caprice, will take your full measure.

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You were always uncomfortable with the rhetoric of emotion, which is quite a different matter from discomfort with emotion itself.

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The existence of other people is essentially awkward.

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