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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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I never wanted to be mainstream as a writer, but look at what's happened.
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