Edna O'Brien - People Quotes

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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

I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles.

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

Love... is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls.

Edna O'Brien

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

After the rich, the most obnoxious people in the world are those who serve the rich.

Edna O'Brien

Writers are always anxious, always on the run — from the telephone, from people, from responsibilities, from the distractions of this world.

Edna O'Brien

All my life I had feared imprisonment, the nun's cell, the hospital bed, the places where one faced the self without distraction, without the crutches of other people.

Edna O'Brien