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Edna O'Brien - Country Girl (2012)

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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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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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Books everywhere. On the shelves and on the small space above the rows of books and all along the floor and under chairs, books that I have read, books that I have not read.

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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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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.

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

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Edna O'Brien

Edna O'Brien

Born: December 15, 1930 (age 91)
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