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Edna O'Brien quotes

Irish Novelist December 15, 1932

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Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been. Edna O'Brien
Love . . . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with that secret buried inside their souls. Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien quote: "She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always..."
She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give. Edna O'Brien
...people liking you or not liking you is an accident and is to do with them and not you. That goes for love too, only more so. Edna O'Brien
Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact. Edna O'Brien
We all leave one another. We die, we change - it's mostly change - we outgrow our best friends; but even if I do leave you, I will have passed on to you something of myself; you will be a different person because of knowing me; it's inescapable... Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien quote: "I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women...."
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien quote: "In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate..."
In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things."(Sister Imelda) Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien quote: "Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the..."
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. Edna O'Brien
I am obsessive, also I am industrious. Besides, the time when you are most alive and most aware is in childhood and one is trying to recapture that heightened awareness. Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien quote: "The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed."
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed. Edna O'Brien
I crossed the room, and what you did was to feel my hair over and over again and in different ways, touch it, with the palm of your hand... felt it, strands of hair, with your fingers, touched it as if it were cloth, the way a child touches its favorite surfaces. Edna O'Brien
My hand does the work and I don't have to think; in fact, were I to think, it would stop the flow. It's like a dam in the brain that bursts. Edna O'Brien
When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. Edna O'Brien
Edna O'Brien quote: "Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul."
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul. Edna O'Brien

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