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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

Topics: Alive Also Am Aware Awareness Besides Childhood Industrious Most Obsessive Time Trying You I Am

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The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.

~Edna O'Brien

Topics: Armed Means Nothing Should Vote Women

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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

Topics: Brain Bursts Dam Does Fact Flow Hand In Fact Like Stop Think Were Work Would

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Writing is like carrying a fetus.

~Edna O'Brien

Topics: Carrying Fetus Like Writing

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Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.

~Edna O'Brien

Topics: Hotels Live Mind Really Soul Writers

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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

Topics: Am Recollection Servant Simply Something Summon Up I Am I Can

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I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.

~Edna O'Brien

Topics: Between Competition Friends Men Prefer Some Trust Women

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I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.

~Edna O'Brien

Topics: Catholic Guilt Iceberg Irish Long

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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

Topics: Back Between Every Forth Last Lovers New Out Played Question Remark Someone Tossed Who

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Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.

~Edna O'Brien

Topics: Countries Either Emotional Fathers Mothers Reserved Secretly

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Novelist

Born: December 15th, 1932

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