"There was I, devouring books and yet allowing……" — Edna O'Brien
"There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps."
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Edna O'Brien
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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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In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue,…
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Another mode of accumulating power arises from lifting a weight and then allowing it to fall.
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Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.
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Allowing children to show their guilt, show their grief, show their anger, takes the sting out of the situation.
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The use of refined petroleum as fuel, which began in the 1850s, freed hundreds of millions of people from the…
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God has opened many doors of opportunity throughout my lifetime, but I believe the greatest of those doors was allowing…
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I don't see any possibility of Britain and the U.S. allowing a sovereign independent Iraq; that's almost inconceivable.
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Certainly my parents were a huge influence. They always expected the most out of all of us. And expected us…
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True love brings up everything - you're allowing a mirror to be held up to you daily.
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