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“Yes, I'm afraid the life over here is very different from N.Z. but oh boy it's a grand life.”

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Jack Lovelock was a New Zealand Olympic athlete renowned for winning gold medals in the 100m and 200m events at the 1936 Berlin Olympics. His career was short but辉煌, and he had a profound impact on New Zealand track and field. more

“Life, after all, was a secret with the self. The more one gave out, the less there remained for the center--that center which she coveted for herself and recognized instantly in others. Fruits had it, the very heart of, say, a cherry, where the true worth and flavor lay. Some of course were flawed or hollow in there. Many, in fact.”

Heart Self Facts Courses Secret Lays Fruit Flavor Flawed Hollow Cherries True Worth

Author:Edna O'Brien

“Cities, in many ways, are the best repositories for a love affair. You are in a forest or a cornfield, you are walking by the seashore, footprint after footprint of trodden sand, and somehow the kiss or the spoken covenant gets lost in the vastness and indifference of nature. In a city there are places to remind us of what has been.”

Way Has Beens Lost Cities Walking Kissing Affair Forests Indifference Sand Covenant Love Affair Footprint Vastness Seashore

Book:Saints and Sinners

Source: Saints and Sinners

“After that dark woman you search for someone who will fit into the irregular corners of your heart.”

Heart Dark Fit Corners

Book:Country Girl

Source: Country Girl

“You have to be lonely to be a writer”

Lonely

Author:Edna O'Brien

“I'm a tuning fork, tense and twanging all the time.”

Tense Forks Tuning

Author:Edna O'Brien

“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?”

Lasts Lovers Remarks Back And Forth Fugue

Author:Edna O'Brien

“Recollection is not something that I can summon up, it simply comes and I am the servant of it.”

I Can Servant Recollection

Author:Edna O'Brien

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