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[A novel] has a right and a duty to ask very painful and difficult questions. It doesn't solve them, but it asks them.

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I never write about simple, gentle things, and I never will. It's not being sensational. I hate sensational books. Unless we look at dark and covered painful wounds, we can never heal them.

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She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give.

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Every day in Ireland, or at least every week, there's another story of a baby found on a river bank or of some dark, covert, incestuous family. An abortion must be such a painful and excruciating decision that to combine it then with half a community jumping down your neck telling you you're dealing in murder, I think that's awful.

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When a true genius appears in the world you may know him by this sign; that the dunces are all in confederacy against him.
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Born: December 15, 1930 (age 91)
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