Quote by Edna O'Brien Download Open image ““he was like a man on the brink of his own creation.”” — Edna O'Brien ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“It struck him as curious that you could create dead men but not living ones.” — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It didn’t matter who he might have been. That was not who he was now. He created himself each day and slowly built his… — Ginn Hale Copy Share Image
“The task of modern man is not to find his inner self, but to create himself.” — Rod Judkins Copy Share Image
“I believe he’s a brilliant man with a monstrous self-love and no soul. Put those qualities together, and there are roots planted for a… — Iris Johansen Copy Share Image
“He who is concerned only with the purity of his own life ruins the great human relations.” — Confucius Copy Share Image
“The original in man is that which articulates him from the very outset upon something other than himself.” — Charles Olson Copy Share Image
... a country encapsulates our childhood and those lanes, byres, fields, flowers, insects, suns, moons and stars are forever reoccurring. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
Ordinary life bypassed me, but I also bypassed it. It couldn't have been any other way.Conventional life and conventional people are not for me. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders. — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“A healer! The beauty of the word a balm. In a mounting astonishment she hears how this man heals with his own blood, pricks… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
“If I could feel like myself I’d thank God but I don’t feel and never will.” — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too,… — Edna O'Brien Copy Share Image
