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Boiled down, isn't love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else.

Carol Shields

Boiled down, isn't love just a form of vanity? You know, the wish to be adored. To be the absolute center for someone else.

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About Carol Shields

Carol Ann Shields (née Warner; June 2, 1935 – July 16, 2003) was an American-born Canadian novelist and short story writer. She is best known for her 1993 novel The Stone Diaries, which won the U.S. Pulitzer Prize for Fiction as well as the Governor General's Award in Canada.