Edna O'Brien quotes - page 2

Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life. (Edna O'Brien)
In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature. View quote
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Writers, however mature and wise and eminent, are children at heart. View quote
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it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night. View quote
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I am not kind, I cut people off as with shears and I drop them like nettles. View quote
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Promiscuity is the death of love. View quote
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fear is a dreadful drawback because it stops us living in the moment. View quote
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What we forgot as children is that our parents are children, also. The child in them has not been satisfied or met or loved, often. View quote
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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. View quote
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I have always espoused chastity except when one can no longer resist the temptation. View quote
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We hide the truer part of ourselves when we love. (Edna O'Brien)
You have to be lonely to be a writer. View quote
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literature is the last banquet between minds. View quote
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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. View quote
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When something has been perfect, there is a tendency to try hard to repeat it. View quote
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Kindness. The most unkind thing of all. View quote
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Writing is the product of a deeply disturbed psyche, and by no means therapeutic. View quote
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jealousy is the direct result of self-betrayal. View quote
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What matters is the imaginative truth. View quote
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Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth. View quote
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I know the mistake I am making. I see the exits in life. (Edna O'Brien)
I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love meant. View quote
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Edna O'Brien

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Occupation: Irish Novelist
Born: December 15, 1930
Died: July 27, 2024
Quotes count: 47

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