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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.
Anne Enright
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Anne Enright
Age: 62
Born: 1962
Born: October 11
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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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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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Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.
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