Edna O'Brien - God Quotes

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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

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

I dislike the phone," she says. "I like faxes. They're gentle. They arrive like little sausages. All I have to do is pray to God — this elusive, 'question mark over His head' God — that when I start to write tomorrow, it will come.

Edna O'Brien

There are times when the thing we are seeing changes before our very eyes, and if it is a landscape we praise nature, and if it is celestial we invoke God, but if it is a loved one who defects, we excuse ourselves and say we have to be somewhere and are already late for our next appointment. We do not stay to put pennies over the half-dead eyes.

Edna O'Brien