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I’m really lucky with the people around me. They know me, so they don’t confuse the issues really. They know what a book is and they know who I am and they know the difference between the two.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch as loving or as horrible.
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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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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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Writing is not my problem, it is my solution.
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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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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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I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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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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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.
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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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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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I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them in an ordinary way.
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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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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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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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