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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
Author
Essayist
Literary Critic
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Television Director
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Dublin city
Powerless
Mars
Improve
Change
Resistless

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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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People do not change, they are merely revealed.
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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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When you find yourself alone, or in a transition, you dream more. These are also the times when you read books.
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I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.
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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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I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.
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If you grow up in Ireland and read books then you really are obliged to attempt your own some time. It is not exactly a choice. I still don't know if I am a writer. Believe me, there are days when I have my doubts.
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A novel is written not to be judged, but experienced.
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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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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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