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Type: Novelist Quotes Category: Irish Novelist Quotes Date of Birth: December 15, 1932 Nationality: Irish Find on Amazon: Edna O'Brien Related Authors: Laurence Sterne Elizabeth Bowen James Joyce Robert Graves Maria Edgeworth Joyce Cary Brian Moore George A. Moore |
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.
Edna O'Brien I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. Edna O'Brien I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. Edna O'Brien I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt. Edna O'Brien In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: 'Is there someone new?' Edna O'Brien My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts. Edna O'Brien Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it. Edna O'Brien The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. Edna O'Brien Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. Edna O'Brien Writing is like carrying a fetus. Edna O'Brien |
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