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The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Having kids is very difficult to do on your own, and it's really crazy difficult to think you're doing it as a team and to find out that you're not actually part of a team.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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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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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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There are little thoughts in your head that can grow until they eat your entire mind. Just tiny little thoughts--they are like a cancer, there is no telling what triggers the spread, or who will be struck, and why some get it and others are spared.
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My kids are supposed to live till they are one hundred. You don't have to have a perfect house or a perfect relationship with your child or a perfect child, and you yourself do not have to be perfect.
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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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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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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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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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It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life.
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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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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.
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I have no place left to live but in my own heart.
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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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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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