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Author - Edna O'Brien
Quotes by : Edna O'Brien
romance
Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither,....
literary quotes
Fiction should be in its way subversive. I don't think books should be neat or gentle or genteel or comforting.....
depth
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
writing
Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions....
spiritual
Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore....
writing
That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart....
character
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen,....
genocide
If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely....
change
In a way winter is the real spring the time when the inner things happen the resurge of nature.
brothers
My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I....
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