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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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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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Remember, if you sit at your desk for 15 or 20 years, every day, not counting weekends, it changes you. It just does. It may not improve your temper, but it fixes something else. It makes you more free.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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