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Edna O Brien Inspirational Quotes (47)

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...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.
Edna O'Brien
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Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
Edna O'Brien
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Later as the day cools and they have gone in, the cry of the corncrake will carry across those same fields and over the lake to the blue-hazed mountain, such a lonely evening sound to it, like the lonely evening sound of the mothers, saying it is not our fault that we weep so, it is nature's fault that makes us first full, then empty.
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There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.
Edna O'Brien
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what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren. And most of that fear is the fear of not knowing, of not actually seeing correctly.
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It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates every corner of our existence.
Edna O'Brien
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jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.
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I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.
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When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
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Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.
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Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.
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I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.
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I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.
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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?
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I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness.
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I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.
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After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.
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I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces.
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... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.
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I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.
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It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.
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Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.
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Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.
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shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.
Edna O'Brien
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