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Edna O'Brien quotes: Promiscuity is the death of love. Promiscuity is the death of love.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost. Ideally I'd like to spend two evenings a week talking to Proust and another conversing with the Holy Ghost.
Edna O'Brien quotes: It was then I cried, cried for the fact of not having cried and for the immensity of tears yet to be shed. It was then I cried, cried for the fact of not having cried and for the immensity of tears yet to be shed.
Edna O'Brien quotes: History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Horses are the ruination of everyone, your father has a craze for them but then we all do crazy things. Horses are the ruination of everyone, your father has a craze for them but then we all do crazy things.
Edna O'Brien quotes: It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it. It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.
Edna O'Brien quotes: There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps. There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye. Money talks, but tell me why all it says is just Goodbye.
Edna O'Brien quotes: When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it. When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
Edna O'Brien quotes: August is a wicked month. August is a wicked month.
Edna O'Brien quotes: I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time ... I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time ...
Edna O'Brien quotes: You would not believe how many words there are for 'home' and what savage music there can be wrung from it. You would not believe how many words there are for 'home' and what savage music there can be wrung from it.
Edna O'Brien quotes: So many that had died on the scaffold and many more to die including, though she did not know it then, her own son. So many that had died on the scaffold and many more to die including, though she did not know it then, her own son.
Edna O'Brien quotes: In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature. In a way winter is the real spring, the time when the inner things happen, the resurge of nature.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Everything hinged on money, Everything hinged on money,
Edna O'Brien quotes: I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant. I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more. Oh, God, who does not exist, you hate women, otherwise you'd have made them different. And Jesus, who snubbed your mother, you hate them more.
Edna O'Brien quotes: After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart. After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.
Edna O'Brien quotes: In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.
Edna O'Brien quotes: I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man. I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy, or in bed with a strange man.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Michael, my darling light. Be sure to have Masses said for the repose of his soul and for us. Your loving mother, Bridget Michael, my darling light. Be sure to have Masses said for the repose of his soul and for us. Your loving mother, Bridget
Edna O'Brien quotes: Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment. Fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Yes, the living, the mangled, the scarified, with the crazed responsibility of remembering everything, everything. Yes, the living, the mangled, the scarified, with the crazed responsibility of remembering everything, everything.
Edna O'Brien quotes: most prized of all, her secretaire, a Napoleon III desk, full of nooks and crannies and pigeonholes, most prized of all, her secretaire, a Napoleon III desk, full of nooks and crannies and pigeonholes,
Edna O'Brien quotes: When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season ... When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season ...
Edna O'Brien quotes: But we want young men. Romance. Love and things, I said, despondently. But we want young men. Romance. Love and things, I said, despondently.
Edna O'Brien quotes: I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation. I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me. Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Writers are always anxious, always on the runfrom the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world. Writers are always anxious, always on the run
from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth. Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love. Shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.
Edna O'Brien quotes: A country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. A country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring.
Edna O'Brien quotes: I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life. I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.
Edna O'Brien quotes: motherless mothers with their skinless mysteries. motherless mothers with their skinless mysteries.
Edna O'Brien quotes: remember love is all bull, the only true love is that between mother and child. remember love is all bull, the only true love is that between mother and child.
Edna O'Brien quotes: The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.
Edna O'Brien quotes: It was all terrible and tiring and meaningless. It was all terrible and tiring and meaningless.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic. Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic.
Edna O'Brien quotes: What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often. What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment. Darkness is drawn to light, but light does not know it; light must absorb the darkness and therefore meet its own extinguishment.
Edna O'Brien quotes: I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love. I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.
Edna O'Brien quotes: She was happy I was home, I would come often, I would be company, She was happy I was home, I would come often, I would be company,
Edna O'Brien quotes: her untimely death. Death for her meant death for us both. her untimely death. Death for her meant death for us both.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be. Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Gabriel, the man she might have tied the knot with except that it was not meant to be. Putting memories to sleep, like putting an animal down. Gabriel, the man she might have tied the knot with except that it was not meant to be. Putting memories to sleep, like putting an animal down.
Edna O'Brien quotes: It's not the vote women need, we should be armed. It's not the vote women need, we should be armed.
Edna O'Brien quotes: If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately. If we are taken all together, we might muster some courage, but from the previous evidence it is likely that we will be taken separately.
Edna O'Brien quotes: There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games. There was always a real reason for everything - why spoons tarnished, and jam furred, and people declined into God, or drink, or card games.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Life was a bitch. Love also was a bitch. Life was a bitch. Love also was a bitch.
Edna O'Brien quotes: We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love. We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love.
Edna O'Brien quotes: I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women. I had not the heart to tell her that great love stories told of the pain and separateness between men and women.
Edna O'Brien quotes: In the bodily garden the apple lurks. In the bodily garden the apple lurks.
Edna O'Brien quotes: She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give. She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Flaubert claimed that we each have a royal room in our hearts into which only very few are admitted. Flaubert claimed that we each have a royal room in our hearts into which only very few are admitted.
Edna O'Brien quotes: You might have written. Every bit of your daily life interests me. I wrote this day fortnight but it was returned. Tampered with. You might have written. Every bit of your daily life interests me. I wrote this day fortnight but it was returned. Tampered with.
Edna O'Brien quotes: We have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey? We have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?
Edna O'Brien quotes: If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin
Edna O'Brien quotes: Never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty. Never forget this moment, the hum of the bee, the saffron threads of the flower, the drawn blinds, nature's assiduousness and human cruelty.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up. Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts. Dilly reckons it would be difficult to thread those needles, the eyes so small, especially with her cataracts.
Edna O'Brien quotes: What matters is the imaginative truth. What matters is the imaginative truth.
Edna O'Brien quotes: My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts.
Edna O'Brien quotes: I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Writing is like carrying a fetus. Writing is like carrying a fetus.
Edna O'Brien quotes: That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open. That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.
Edna O'Brien quotes: For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little For me to write I have to be, a, alone, and b, know that nobody is going to question me. I write the way a thief steals; it's a little covert.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons. Movie people are possessed by demons, but a very low form of demons.
Edna O'Brien quotes: People liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so. People liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so.
Edna O'Brien quotes: I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork. I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal. Jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal.
Edna O'Brien quotes: I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles. I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.
Edna O'Brien quotes: On the island of tears, we were subjected to every kind of humiliation, On the island of tears, we were subjected to every kind of humiliation,
Edna O'Brien quotes: Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment. Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.
Edna O'Brien quotes: You're a right-looking eejit You're a right-looking eejit
Edna O'Brien quotes: I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.
Edna O'Brien quotes: It is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night. It is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart. Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life. Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Her little treasures. Each item reminding her of someone or of something. Her little treasures. Each item reminding her of someone or of something.
Edna O'Brien quotes: When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Kindness. The most unkind thing of all. Kindness. The most unkind thing of all.
Edna O'Brien quotes: holidays took the poisons out of everyday life. holidays took the poisons out of everyday life.
Edna O'Brien quotes: The words ran away with me. The words ran away with me.
Edna O'Brien quotes: Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Edna O'Brien quotes: You have to be lonely to be a writer You have to be lonely to be a writer

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