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When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa.


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"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