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Edna O'Brien [1932-0] Irish

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Edna O'Brien is an Irish novelist, memoirist, playwright, poet and short story writer. Philip Roth has described her "the most gifted woman now writing in English", while former President of Ireland Mary Robinson has cited her as "one of the great creative writers of her generation."

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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.		101
Writing is like carrying a fetus.		102
Writers really live in the mind and in hotels of the soul.		103
Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.		104
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.		105
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.		106
The vote means nothing to women. We should be armed.		107
I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women.	Trust	108
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?'		109
Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire.		110

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