The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin.
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LIONEL SHRIVER Sure...the boy was precocious. But having been precocious himself, Lowell was never wowed by teenage...
LIONEL SHRIVER His weight makes him a social pariah. It reduces the likelihood he’ll remarry. It has grave implic...
LIONEL SHRIVER Funny how the nature of a normal day is the first memory to fade.
LIONEL SHRIVER That boy hardly needed a mask when his naked face was already impenetrable.
LIONEL SHRIVER People seem to get used to anything, and it is a short step from adaptation to attachment.
LIONEL SHRIVER Our mothers give us so many gifts. They give us the precious gift of life, of course, but they also ...
MARIA SHRIVER Still, through a complex combination of optimism and longing and bravado, you would round it up. Whi...
LIONEL SHRIVER You don't wanna walk around and say, 'I'm somebody's niece, I'm somebody's c...
MARIA SHRIVER My own apathy is bone chilling.
LIONEL SHRIVER It's an apathy so absolute that it's like a hole you might fall in.
LIONEL SHRIVER I came to regard my body in a new light. For the first time I apprehended the little mounds on my ch...
LIONEL SHRIVER It isn't very nice to admit, but domestic violence has its uses. So raw and unleashed, it tears away...
LIONEL SHRIVER Change is like that: you are no longer where you were; you are not yet where you will get; you are n...
LIONEL SHRIVER Whoa, that's the kind of little sister I can dig!" said Edison.
"Yes, we're all alike," I said....
LIONEL SHRIVER In Kevin's book, unwitnessed disobedience is wasteful.
LIONEL SHRIVER There is one province in which, sooner or later, virtually everyone gets dealt a leading role--hero,...
LIONEL SHRIVER He's at home recovering and is doing great.
EVELYN SHRIVER I think I had been something of a nuisance. They thought if I had my hands full, I wouldn't bother t...
EVELYN SHRIVER He prizes ambiguity; he loves to keep you guessing.
LIONEL SHRIVER He wasn't mad, he was sad.
LIONEL SHRIVER Not that happiness is dull. Only that it doesn't tell well. And of our consuming diversions as we ag...
LIONEL SHRIVER The Web, the great time-killer that had replaced conspicuously passive television with its seductive...
LIONEL SHRIVER We'd been assured it wouldn't be painful, though she might experience 'discomfort,' a term beloved o...
LIONEL SHRIVER I suppose that's a common conceit, that you've already been so damaged that damage itself in its tot...
LIONEL SHRIVER Children live in the same world we do. To kid ourselves that we can shelter them from it isn't just ...
LIONEL SHRIVER A person with normal eyesight would have nothing to know in the way of 'Impressionism' unles...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT I hate to paint portraits! I hope never to paint another portrait in my life. Portraiture may be all...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT The habit of breaking up one's colour to make it brilliant dates from further back than Impressi...
JOHN SINGER SARGENT You can't do sketches enough. Sketch everything and keep your curiosity fresh.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT I do not judge, I only chronicle.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend.
JOHN SINGER SARGENT