"And, in fact, this is the tale that……" — Anne Enright
"And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head."
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Anne Enright
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55 Quotes by Anne Enright
Anne Enright has 55 quotes on this site.
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The way to write a book is to actually write a book. A pen is useful, typing is also good.…
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Only bad writers think that their work is really good.
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Write whatever way you like. Fiction is made of words on a page; reality is made of something else. It…
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There are men who would do anything, asleep, and I'm not sure what stops them when they wake. I do…
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Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.
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We have lost the art of public tenderness, these small gestures of wiping and washing; we have forgotten how abjectly…
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Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.
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Imagine that you are dying. If you had a terminal disease would you finish this book? Why not? The thing…
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I do not believe in evil- I believe that we are human and fallible, that we things and spoil them…
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I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have…
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A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking
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I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that…
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More Boots Quotes
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Being from Texas, I would say I favor a pair of jeans you can wear some boots with.
— Jensen Ackles
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Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular…
— Charles Babbage
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I use Graf Edmonton for boots and John Wilson blades.
— Oksana Baiul
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Does it follow that I reject all authority? Perish the thought. In the matter of boots, I defer to the…
— Mikhail Bakunin
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There's man all over for you, blaming on his boots the fault of his feet.
— Samuel Beckett
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.
— Mayim Bialik
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Admittedly, a homosexual can be conditioned to react sexually to a woman, or to an old boot for that matter.…
— William S. Burroughs
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We are already expected to be the goodie two shoes. I went through that during my junior high schools where…
— Nick Cannon
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I thought I would dress in baggy pants, big shoes, a cane and a derby hat. everything a contradiction: the…
— Charlie Chaplin
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Who the hell wants fourteen pairs of shoes when they go on holiday? I haven't had fourteen pairs in my…
— Brian Clough
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Most of my young years were spent under the boots of the military.
— Paulo Coelho
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