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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Essayist
Literary Critic
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Television Producer
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Dublin city
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Nothing
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Life

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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.
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For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn 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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One of the reasons I write is I like being surprised
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In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from.
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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.
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I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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I am interested in levels of brain discourse. How articulate are the voices in your head? You know, there's a different voice for the phone, and a different voice if you're talking in bed. When you're starting off with a narrator, it's interesting to think, where is their voice coming from, what part of their brain?
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I write anywhere - when I have an idea it’s hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn’t be disturbed, it really filled my day.
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There are about as many ways to be dead as there are to be alive. People linger in different ways, both publicly and privately.
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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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Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand.
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