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I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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If your life just falls apart early on, you can put it together again. Its the people who are always on the brink of crisis who dont hit bottom who are in trouble.
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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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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing that annoys this 10-weeks-to-live self is the thing that is wrong with the book. So change it. Stop arguing with yourself. Change it. See? Easy. And no one had to die.
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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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There's quite a big gap when it comes to that dual identity of mother and child, or even a pregnant woman, or a nursing woman. It kind of begs the question of that very strong Western idea of the individual self.
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Naming is nice. It took me days before I was able to speak a name for my first child (what if people did not like it?), and I suspect we gave her a secret, second name as well, to keep her safe.
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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 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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