In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things.

Edna OBrien
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  3. I envy people that know love. That have someone who takes them as they are. - Jess C. Scott

  4. The only love that I really believe in is a mother’s love for her children. - Karl Lagerfeld

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More Quotes By Edna OBrien
  1. Love .. . is like nature, but in reverse; first it fruits, then it flowers, then it seems to wither, then it goes deep, deep down into its burrow, where no one sees it, where it is lost from sight, and ultimately people die with...

  2. Writers are always anxious, always on the run--from the telephone, from responsibilities, from the distractions of the world.

  3. It is impossible to capture the essence of love in writing, only its symptoms remain, the erotic absorption, the huge disparity between the times together and the times apart, the sense of being excluded.

  4. That is the mystery about writing: it comes out of afflictions, out of the gouged times, when the heart is cut open.

  5. My friends I tell you this, we are a jolly group but put us in uniform and all that change. In war I don’t know who my brother. In war I don’t know who my friend. War make everybody savage. Who can say what lies...

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