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The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.

Anne Enright

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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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Essayist
Literary Critic
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Television Director
Television Producer
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Dublin city
Dead
Else
Truth
Nothing
Thing
Require

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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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People think motherhood involves a lot of domestic labor, and it doesn't. It involves being nice to your children as often as possible. That's part of my trick. I don't have that anxiety about meeting their needs.
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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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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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I was raised in a very old fashioned Ireland where women were reared to be lovely.
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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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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 not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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