Maeve Brennan quotes
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“All we have to face in the future is what has happened in the past. It is unbearable.”
-- Maeve BrennanSource : Maeve Brennan (1998). “The Springs of Affection: Stories of Dublin”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
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“Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness. Then what resentful wonder, and what half-aimless seeking. It is a silly state of affairs. It is a silly creature that tries to get a smile from even the most familiar and loving shadow. Comical and hopeless, the long gaze back is always turned inward.”
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“New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that baffles us until we go away from her, and then we realize why we are restless. At home or away, we are homesick for New York not because New York used to be better and not because she used to be worse but because the city holds us and we don't know why.”
-- Maeve BrennanSource : Maeve Brennan (2015). “The Long-Winded Lady: Notes from The New Yorker”, p.79, Counterpoint
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“Home is a place in the mind. When it is empty, it frets. It is fretful with memory, faces and places and times gone by. Beloved images rise up in disobedience and make a mirror for emptiness.”
-- Maeve Brennan -
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Source : "Sh'ma, Volume 34, Issue 607 - Volume 36, Issue 626". Book edited by J. Jakobovits, 2004.
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“I don't think so, I don't agree. The most unbearable thing I think by far, she said, is hope.”
Source : Aimee Bender (2011). “The Girl in the Flammable Skirt: Stories”, p.28, Anchor
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“To not have your suffering recognized is an almost unbearable form of violence.”
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“Just remember... life without me would be even more unbearable.”
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