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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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Dublin city
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Resistless
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Mars
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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head.
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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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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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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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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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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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To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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If you try to control it too much, the book is dead. You have to let it fall apart quite early on and let it start doing its own thing. And that takes nerve, not to panic that the book you were going to write is not the book you will have at the end of the day.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too.
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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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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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We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.
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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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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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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.
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