Irish People Quotes by Sally Rooney

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I think it's best for me to kind of just plough on doing whatever interests me, just following my own whims, because otherwise, I would think, 'Oh well, I have to write something now that really represents my generation or…

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I like Christianity. I'm a fan of Jesus and his whole philosophy but not the social teaching aspects of it, of course.

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“I lay there in the bath not thinking, not doing anything. After a few seconds, I heard her open the front door, and then her voice saying: she's had a really rough day, so just be nice to her. And Nick said: I know, I will. I loved them both so much in this moment that I wanted to appear…

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There are a lot of people who probably enjoyed 'Conversations with Friends' who are part of the system that is actively exploiting other people's…

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I would rather do two things really, really, really well than do 16 things and have 14 of them fail.

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When I'm writing something, everything falls into place. When I'm not writing, stuff keeps happening to me, and there's nowhere to put it all.

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I try to keep my sentences quite pared back. What I really want to do is observe people's relationships and interactions. I don't want…

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“Well, if that's suffering, he thinks, let me suffer. Yes. To love whoever I have left. And if ever I lose someone, let me descend into a futile and prolonged rage, yes, despair, wanting to break things, furniture, appliances, wanting to get into fights, to scream, to walk in front of a bus, yes. Let me suffer, please. To love…

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“I thought about all the things I had never told Nick about myself, and I started to feel better.”

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“All these people are suffering without the tools to end their own suffering. And we who have the tools refuse to do anything about…

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I couldn't quite get the hang of how to socialise as a teenager. I didn't really understand it.

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I'm very introverted. Easily a few days could go by where I would not really leave the house or talk to anybody other than…

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I'm not totally comfortable with the ways in which our culture monetises art and literature.

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