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Famous Anne Enright Quotes
“Belief needs something terrible to make it work, I find--blood, nails, a bit of anguish.”
“Resistless change, when powerless to improve, Can only mar.”
“There is nothing as tentative as an old woman's touch; as loving or as horrible.”
“The truth. The dead want nothing else. It is the only thing that they require.”
“God, I hate my family, these people I never chose to love, but love all the same.”
“I think writers worry that you might not exist in some strange way if you're not writing.”
“I think young children in the Western middle classes are objects of incredible anxiety.”
“I do not think we remember our family in any real sense. We live in them instead”
“We do not always like the people we love- we do not always have that choice.”
“I have no place left to live but in my own heart.”
“Nothing had happened yet in my life except the need to get out of it.”
“Cats, I always think, only jump into your lap to check if you are cold enough, yet, to eat.”