"In every question and every remark tossed back……" — 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?"
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43 Quotes by Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien has 43 quotes on this site.
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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.
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Death in its way comes just as much of a surprise as birth.
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In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.
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I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in…
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Oh, love, what an unreasoning creature it grew to be.
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I knew I had done something awful. I had killed love, before I even knew the enormity of what love…
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Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the…
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Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield,…
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After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.
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You have to be lonely to be a writer
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I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time....
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Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.
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More Every Question Quotes
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The word "question" originates from the Latin root, quaestio, which means "to seek." Inside the word "question" is the word…
— Tom Wujec
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
— Oscar Levant
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Men of energy of character must have enemies; because there are two sides to every question, and taking one with…
— Thomas Jefferson
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At this point we've answered about every question you could possibly imagine about Deep Space Nine, so we do this…
— Rene Auberjonois
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To the intelligent man or woman, life appears infinitely mysterious. But the stupid have an answer for every question.
— Edward Abbey
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"And you require no answers", Foamfollower was laughing in his gladness, "You are sufficient to every question".
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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In the Muslim world, this notion that somehow everything is the fault of the Israelis lacks balance - because there's…
— Barack Obama
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The argument for intelligent design basically depends on saying, 'You haven't answered every question with evolution,'... Well, guess what? Science…
— Kenneth R. Miller
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This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes…
— Mort Sahl
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Church practice has been more influenced by Plato than by Jesus. We invariably prefer the universal synthesis, the answer that…
— Richard Rohr
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I've reached the 50th year of my life, and now every question related with life also includes thinking about death.…
— Emir Kusturica
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I want to make it clear that I honestly answered every question put to me during the so-called Iran-Contra hearings.…
— Oliver North
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