Lionel Shriver quote

Criminality being partially preordained may seem to let culprits off the hook. Yet it also makes the proclivity seem ineradicable and suggests that reform is unlikely: once a baddie, always a baddie.
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver
Lionel Shriver
Born: May 18, 1957

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