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The words ran away with me.

The words ran away with me.
– Edna OBrien

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  2. I was lonelier than I should be, for a woman in love, or half in love. – Edna OBrien
  3. When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious. – Edna OBrien
  4. If the Holy Communion touched my teeth, I thought that was a mortal sin – Edna OBrien
  5. In our deepest moments we say the most inadequate things. – Edna OBrien
  6. They ran to the museums for paintings. I ran to the roof for sunsets – Darnell Lamont Walker
  7. When Douglas walked, his mind ran, when he ran, his mind walked. – Ray Bradbury
  8. The path of true love never ran smooth. More likely you ran out of gas, blew a tire, and hit the wall before you crossed the finish line. – Erin McCarthy
  9. The power of words is in the works of words. People are much more bonded by the works of words than words. The work of words is the trigger of words. – Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
  10. Nothing said in words ever came out quite even. Things in words got twisted and ran together, instead of staying straight and fitting together. – Ursula K Le Guin
  11. Words can create, words give life, words can build, words can destroy. Words can bring something out of nothing. What are you saying? – Mopelola Adeniyi
  12. It sounds so far away and different. I like different places. I like any places that isn’t here. – Edna Ferber
  13. Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there’d be no more wars. – Robert Anton Wilson
  14. people who ran away are friends! – Bilal Tanweer
  15. she ran away in her sleep and dreamed of paradise – Unknownnown
  16. Words, too, have genuine substance — mass and weight and specific gravity. – Tim OBrien
  17. Mark My Words, My Words In Other Words Are Not Just Words. – Syed Sharukh
  18. Silence has its own language and in that silence he found words within himself; words for her, words for him and words for them. – Faraaz Kazi
  19. I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death. – Edna St Vincent Millay
  20. There is no such thing as a beauty contest . . . Beauty is noncompetitive. Beauty of any kind stands alone, unmatched, inimitable, uncontested. – Edna Robinson
  21. Books should be cherished, like children, books are for the next generation, like children, like history. – Edna Ferber
  22. I do not think there is a woman in whom the roots of passion shoot deeper than in me. – Edna St Vincent Millay
  23. Life is not sugar coated. – Edna Stewart
  24. Considering the extravagance of my expectations, the flying experience was bound to be a disappointment. – Edna Robinson
  25. My mother used to say that there are no strangers, only friends you haven’t met yet. She’s now in a maximum security twilight home in Australia. – Dame Edna Everage
  26. I would I were alive again to kiss the fingers of the rain. – Edna St Vincent Millay
  27. And so beneath the weight lay IAnd suffered death, but could not die. – Edna St Vincent Millay
  28. A writer’s working hours are his waking hours. He is working as long as he is conscious and frequently when he isn’t. – Edna Ferber
  29. If I love one lover,…I have loved many more. – Edna Stewart
  30. Hard work always pays off in the eyes of a God that never sleeps. . . . Who’s always near and never far – Edna Stewart
  31. That just goes to show, remarked Pearlie, that you must never judge a woman in a kimono or a bathing suit. – Edna Ferber
  32. It’s fun telling you tall Texas tales. You always look like a little girl who’s hearing Cinderella for the first time. – Edna Ferber
  33. About mistakes it’s funny. You’ve got to make your own; and not only that, if you try to keep people from making theirs, they get mad. – Edna Ferber
  34. A life like this develops the comedy sense. You can’t play tragedy while you’re living it. – Edna Ferber
  35. Take away the people’s bread and you get discontent; take away their money and you get anger, but take away their heroes and you get revolution. – Alex Jackson
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  37. It is in the deconstruction of ourselves that we begin to build our lives. – Delora Argiro OBrien
  38. If you encase yourself in stone like a fossil, you’ll have an existence, but not a life. – Deborah OBrien
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  40. Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all. – Flann OBrien

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