Sad to hear that Edna O'Brien has died. What an amazing body of work she leaves, and what a life she had. The controversy over her early books had ebbed by the time I started reading her, but the elegance of her writing and the power of her stories remained, and remains, unaltered
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"I'm not a bad match," he said. "I've a pump in the yard, a bull and a brother a priest. What more could a woman want?"
—Edna O'Brien, Girl with Green Eyes (aka The Lonely Girl), 1962
"She insisted that literature was a precursor to sin and damnation, whereas I believed it was the only alchemy that there was."
—Edna O'Brien, Saints and Sinners, 2011
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"We say to ourselves: 'Where will it all lead us to?' and coax the fates to take us on to disaster." —Edna O'Brien
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