History is said to be written by the victors. Fiction, by contrast, is largely the work of injured bystanders.
what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren… - Edna O'Brien
what makes us so afraid is the thing we half see, or half hear, as in a wood at dusk, when a tree stump becomes an animal and a sound becomes a siren…
- Edna O'Brien
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities… - Edna O'Brien
Irish? In truth I would not want to be anything else. It is a state of mind as well as an actual country. It is being at odds withother nationalities…
In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature. - Edna O'Brien
In a way Winter is the real Spring - the time when the inner things happen, the resurgence of nature.
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, w… - 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, w…
It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates ever… - Edna O'Brien
It is increasingly clear that the fate of the universe will come to depend more and more on individuals as the bungling of bureaucracy permeates ever…
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 … - 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 …
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
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.
Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life. - Edna O'Brien
Sometimes one word can recall a whole span of life.
... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey? - Edna O'Brien
... we have so many voices in us, how do we know which ones to obey?
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