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Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Literary Critic
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Dublin city
Powerless
Mars
Improve
Change
Resistless

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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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I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't.
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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