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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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People whose lives are upside down often read fiction. When you're not sure where you'll end up or how you are going to be, and you're looking for some way forward, fiction is a great friend.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
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Story is about pulling the reader in and a plot is a more externalized mechanism of revelation. A plot is more antic, more performative, and less intimate. When you're telling a story you're telling it into someone's ear.
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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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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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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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Try to be accurate about stuff.
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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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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural.
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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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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking.
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