But I was beginning to intuit that full-blown maturity was not so very different from childhood. Both states in their extreme were all about following the rules.
Rules are for people with the luxury of time.
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Renee Carlino
This was about more than semantics; it represented a dangerous shift in perspective. Rio was not at war, I pointed out; and even if it were, wars have rules.
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Juliana Barbassa
Rules are for those who can't think of a better way.
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Catherynne M. Valente
If the rules make such a difference, then it becomes very important who gets to make them.
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Abhijit V. Banerjee
You don't win a game by hitting the ball out of the court.
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Anonymous
More Quotes By Lionel Shriver
But keeping secrets is a discipline. I never use to think of myself as a good liar, but after having had some practice I had adopted the prevaricator's credo that one doesn't so much fabricate a lie as marry it. A successful lie cannot be...
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.
The good life doesn't knock on the door. Joy is a job.
Outside, she thought that there ought to be a word for it: the air temperature that was perfectly neither hot nor cold. One degree lower, and she might have felt a faint misgiving about not having brought a jacket. One degree higher, and a skim...
Wasn't there only one respectable memento of a man worth keeping, the kind that draws Valentines and learns to spell Mississippi?
