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Kate O'Brien
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“... love and life cannot help but marry and stay married with an exhausting violence of fidelity.”
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“I have sometimes believed that I could see shadows spread under people's eyes when they were being frantically bored. I have seen faces age and sag under the onslaught of amiable extroversion ...”
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“A laugh is a terrible weapon ...”
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“... the way to achieve a difficult thing was to set it in motion.”
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“Would the world ever be run by anything better than personal passion, and the scoring off each other of amoral schoolboys?”
Kate O'Brien, Irish playwright, novelist, journalist
(1897 - 1974)