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When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 61
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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