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People do not change, they are merely revealed.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Dublin city
Revealed
Merely
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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I think it’s very important to write a demythologized woman character. My characters are flawed. They are no better than they should be.
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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since.
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I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. The Gathering did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time.
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There is something wonderful about a death, how everything shuts down, and all the ways you thought you were vital are not even vaguely important. Your husband can feed the kids, he can work the new oven, he can find the sausages in the fridge, after all. And his important meeting was not important, not in the slightest.
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I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find.
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My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
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The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good. Keep putting words on the page.
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Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be.
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do not know how they draw the line.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing we have forgotten how abjectly the body welcomes a formal touch.
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