Edna O'Brien Short Quotes

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I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life.

Edna O'Brien
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

Edna O'Brien
She looks like her eyes have been taken out and deep-fried.

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Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.

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The vote, I thought, means nothing to women, we should be armed.

Edna O'Brien
We have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?

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I always want to be in love, always. It's like being a tuning fork.

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Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart.

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Wherever there were horses or ponies the mushrooms always sprang up.

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Fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment.

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I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love.

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If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin

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On the island of tears, we were subjected to every kind of humiliation.

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

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She was a spasmodic selfless torrent like the fizz from her own cider bottles.

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Irish Catholicism is very much founded on the stone of fear and of punishment.

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

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She looked like a woman who was being sent to a mental institution, but did not know it.

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I did not sleep. I never do when I am over-happy, over-unhappy or in bed with a strange man.

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Just say I was born in the mid-30s.... If I die and you write my obituary, don't give my age.

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It was the first time that I came face to face with madness and feared it and was fascinated by it.

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After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.

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I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant.

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Shadows of love, inebriations of love, foretastes of love, trickles of love, but never yet the one true love.

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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

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I am committing suicide through lack of intelligence, and through not knowing, not learning to know, how to live.

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That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

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When you fall in love, it is spring no matter when. Leaves falling make no difference, they are from another season.

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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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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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