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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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I can't think of anything you might say about Irish people that is absolutely true.
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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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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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God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.
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