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“Precocious was not the same as smart, much less the same as wise, and the perfect opposite of informed - since the more you prided yourself on knowing already the less you listened and the less you learned.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

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“To truly pull off proper apathy about the stuff (money) would require so much energy, such contrived ideological zealotry, that the indifference would amount to a kind of caring.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

tags: money

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“He wonders what it would be like to belong somewhere and never doubt it.”
― Stephanie Bishop, The Other Side of the World

tags: home, homesickness

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“But I've never met anybody whose life has taken a sudden turn for the worse who thought a reversal of fortune was just what they had coming to them.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

tags: fortune

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“Jayne was left an only child after her younger sister committed suicide in adolescence (a tragedy, yes, but one whose psychic statute of limitations might have run out by now - not that you'd get his wife to relinquish the trauma , which seemed to confer the special-protection status of landmark architecture.”
― Lionel Shriver, The Mandibles: A Family, 2029–2047

tags: bitchy

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