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1. "Here we go again. Always a few drinks, but sometimes even sober, we play the unhappiness game; endlessly round and round. Ding dong. Tighter and tighter. On and on. Push me pull you. Come here and i'll tell you how much i hate you. Hang on a minute while i leave you. All the while we know we are missing the point, whatever the point used to be." ~ Anne Enright
2. "A drinker does not exist. Whatever they say, it is just the drink talking" ~ Anne Enright
3. "Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat." ~ Anne Enright
4. "Because a mother's love is God's greatest joke." ~ Anne Enright
5. "I see her on a Sunday after lunch, and we spend a pleasant afternoon, and when I leave I find she has run through me like water." ~ Anne Enright
6. "There are long stretches of time when I don't know what I am doing,or what I have done - nothing mostly, but sometimesit would be nice to know what kind of nothing that was..." ~ Anne Enright
7. "Has the rain a father...What womb brings forth the ice?- Job: 38" ~ Anne Enright
8. "I think you know everything at eight. But is is hidden from you, sealed up, in a way you have to cut yourself open to find." ~ Anne Enright
9. "I must console him for the distance we have moved from the place where he stopped." ~ Anne Enright
10. "People do not change, they are merely revealed." ~ Anne Enright
11. "And what amazes me as I hit the motorway is not the fact that everyone loses someone, but that everyone loves someone. It seems like such a massive waste of energy -- and we all do it, all the people beetling along between the white lines, merging, converging, overtaking. We each love someone, even though they will die. And we keep loving them, even when they are not there to love any more. And there is no logic or use to any of this, that I can see." ~ Anne Enright
12. "We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice." ~ Anne Enright
13. "I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead" ~ Anne Enright
14. "I have no place left to live but in my own heart." ~ Anne Enright
15. "Description is hard. Remember that all description is an opinion about the world. Find a place to stand." ~ Anne Enright
16. "I think I am ready for that. I think I am ready to be met." ~ Anne Enright
17. "Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it." ~ Anne Enright
18. "Her past is behind her, her future is of little concern. She moves towards the grave, at her own speed." ~ Anne Enright
19. "You can not libel the dead, I think, you can only console them." ~ Anne Enright
20. "And, in fact, this is the tale that I would love to write: history is such a romantic place, with its jarveys and urchins and side-buttoned boots. If it would just stay still, I think, and settle down. If it would just stop sliding around in my head." ~ Anne Enright
21. "In more static societies, like Ireland, you can tell where a person is from by their surname, or where their grandparents are from." ~ Anne Enright
22. "The writing day can be, in some ways, too short, but it's actually a long series of hours, for months at a time, and there is a stillness there." ~ Anne Enright
23. "For 10 or 11 years, I had my kids, I wrote four or five books, and I was working all the damn time." ~ Anne Enright
24. "I became a full-time writer in 1993 and have been very happy, insofar as anybody is, since." ~ Anne Enright
25. "I love the characters not knowing everything and the reader knowing more than them. There's more mischief in that and more room for seriousness, too." ~ Anne Enright
26. "I work at the sentences. Many of the things people find distinctive about my writing, I think of as natural." ~ Anne Enright
27. "I'm quite interested in the absolute roots of narrative, why we tell stories at all: where the monsters come from." ~ Anne Enright
28. "If you can just actually let the character be for a bit, then you get the right sense." ~ Anne Enright
29. "I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital." ~ Anne Enright
30. "Of course I am bland, she thought. You too would be bland if you grew up with one gas pump in front of the house and nothing else except a view that stretched over half the world. Landscape made me bland, bears poking in the garbage can stunted my individuality, as did plagues of horseflies, permafrost, wild-fire, and the sun setting like a bomb. So much sky makes one bewildered - which is the proper way to be." ~ Anne Enright
31. "It is very hard to trace the effect of words on a life." ~ Anne Enright
32. "To be able to have the space to sit down and write has always been my central policy." ~ Anne Enright
33. "When I'm working, I'm not so much disciplined as obsessive. I have this feeling that I need to clear everything away and get this down." ~ Anne Enright
34. "I do wish I could write like some of the American women, who can be clever and heartfelt and hopeful; people like Lorrie Moore and Jennifer Egan. But Ireland messed me up too much, I think, so I can't." ~ Anne Enright
35. "I find being Irish quite a wearing thing. It takes so much work because it is a social construction. People think you are going to be this, this, and this." ~ Anne Enright
36. "I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer." ~ Anne Enright
37. "I write anywhere - when I have an idea, it's hard not to write. I used to be kind of precious about where I wrote. Everything had to be quiet and I couldn't be disturbed; it really filled my day." ~ Anne Enright
38. "I'm starting to think my narrators' sentences are getting too big for them, and they are getting to sound a bit samey and, more disturbingly, a bit too much like me." ~ Anne Enright
39. "I'm very keenly aware that there aren't very many women writing literary fiction in Ireland and so that gives me a sense that what I say matters, in some small way." ~ Anne Enright
40. "I've heard people, usually writers, say that no one wrote a great book after winning the Booker, but I honestly did not feel any big pressure. 'The Gathering' did hang over me in that it was darker than I thought at the time." ~ Anne Enright
41. "Jej blekit zajal miejsce w szarych zakamarkach jego mózgu i pozostal tam do konca zycia" ~ Anne Enright
42. "Val is a bachelor farmer in his seventies, so he should, by rights, be half mad." ~ Anne Enright
43. "They are surprisingly tall--eight-year-olds. They are surprisingly like real people. Of course your own babies are always real to you, they are all there from the word go, but even strangers' children look like proper people by the aged of eight..." ~ Anne Enright
44. "There were girls at school whose families grew to a robust five or six. There were girls with seven or eight-which was thought a little enthusiastic - and then there were the pathetic ones like me, who had parents that were just helpless to it, and bred as naturally as they might shit." ~ Anne Enright

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Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit."
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