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Edna O'Brien Quotes

List of quotations and sayings by the irish novelist Edna O'Brien on topics like tossed, remark, fugue

  • I have some women friends but I prefer men.

    Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

    — Edna O'Brien on built-in
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  • The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

    — Edna O'Brien on women
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  • 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?'

    — Edna O'Brien on fugue
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  • In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. (Sister Imelda)

    — Edna O'Brien on comment
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  • 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 on brain
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  • 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?

    — Edna O'Brien on love
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  • Writing is like carrying a fetus.

    — Edna O'Brien on carrying
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  • 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 on 1932-irish-writer
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  • Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

    — Edna O'Brien on countries
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  • 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 on alive
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  • Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.

    — Edna O'Brien on recollection
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  • Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

    — Edna O'Brien on hotels
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