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If water can be changed into wine and the dead can be brought back, then I want time pushed back.
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Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.
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more she thought about it the more she came
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She would learn how to spend these hours. In the peace of these winter evenings, she would work out how she was going to live.
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What she loved most about America, Eilis thought on these mornings, was how the heating was kept on all night.
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She was lonely without Blunt, but she was lonelier at the idea that the world went on as though she had not loved him.
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From now on the architects would take over as the high preists of this bourgeois city.
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the problem for her was that she was on her own now and that she had no idea how to live.
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I'm hungry." "We're all hungry. But, darling, you don't need to look hungry. Pretend you are full." "And
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I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
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Memory fills my body as much as blood and bones.
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The details of what I told him were with me all the years in the same way as my hands or my arms were with me.
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It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
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Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.
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All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
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Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.
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It was like the arrival of night when you knew that you would never see anything in daylight again.
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It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.
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woman who had not told him or anybody
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We can all have plenty of lives, but there are limits. You never can tell what they are.
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Dreams belong to each of us alone, just as pain does.
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There were always children, Miss
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I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.
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If you have to read to cheer yourself up, read biographies of writers who went insane.
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Life is but a day and expresses mainly a single note.
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Once more she noted the hectoring tone, as though she were a child, unable to make proper decisions.
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I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
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It is terrible to be an unprotected being.
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What is hard to understand is that our dreams matter
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He was delighted by things, as he was delighted by her, and he had done nothing else ever but make that clear.
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